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PRESENTED BY 



After Twenty-five Years 



AN ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



Quarter-Century Celebration 



OF THE 



Class of 77 



Princeton University 
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TRENTON, N. J. 
PRINTED, NOT PUBLISHED 

1907 






The Secretary has delayed the publication of the record 
of the Quarter Century Re-union, one of the most successful 
and enjoyable ever held by the Class, in the belief that a 
perusal oi its story at this time will add to the interest and 
increase the attendance at the Re-union in June, 1907. 

The Secretary is indebted to Jai Scott for assisting in 

compiling the stenographer's report of the speeches at the 

dinner. 

John A. Campbe^IvL, 

Secretary, 

TbENTON, N. J., March i, 1907. 






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The Quarter Century Re-Union of the 
Class of 77, Princeton, June, 1902 



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I.ANS for the Re-union were carefully laid by a 
Committee consisting of Pyne, Armour, Osborn, 
Speir, Dunning, Lynde and Campbell. The Goldie 
House, known as the "Quarter Century House," was rented 
furnished for Commencement Week. A New York caterer 
was engaged to furnish meals, and on Friday the house was 
open for the reception of the fellows. A reproduction of a 
photograph of the headquarters is shown, with a few of the 
fellows in the foreground, and an idea is given of the 
decorations of Orange and Black covering the front of the 
house. If the quarters were somewhat limited Monday 
night, when forty fellows slept in the house, the enjoyment 
was complete. The menu was all that could be desired, and 
testimonials can be had from Senator Ormond, who, to our 
great pleasure, was with us at every meal. The stories told,, 
the old days recalled, would fill a volume. The head- 
quarters were a popular resort for many professors and 
friends, and were regarded as one of the pleasant and com- 
fortable features of the Re-union. 

On Saturday afternoon, headed by a fine band, fifty of the 
Class, adorned with Panama hats, imported for the occasion, 
and carrying umbrellas with class numerals, joined in the 
parade before the Yale base-ball game, and at its close 
rejoiced with the crowd of Princeton sympathizers in the 
downfall of Yale. 

Sunday was passed in attending the Baccalaureate and 
revisiting old scenes and becoming acquainted with the 
new Princeton. 



Monday was Class Day. In the afternoon, by invitation, 
the fellows and their families wended their way to Drum- 
thwacket, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne, 
where a hospitable reception awaited them. The day was 
perfect, and the re-union of the fellows, their wives and 
children, most happy and delightful. The Class presented 
Mrs. Pyne with a china loving-cup with suitable inscription, 
as a mementO' of the occasion. Two^ views of the reception 
are given — one taken on the lawn showing the entire ^"j^j 
family present, and the other a Class group from the rear of 
the house. 

The houses of Pyne, Armour, Schanck, Scott, Westcott, 
Ormond and Norris were at the disposal of the fellows, and 
many enjoyed their hospitality. 

The meals at the headquarters were not of the old familiar 
eating-club type. The menu was not elaborate, but it was 
finely cooked and well served. The only fault found with 
the temporary hotel was made by one of the fellows, who 
said : "You are running this house in great shape. I have 
but one fault to find — there are too few towels. I have had 
but one, which must answer the double purpose of binding 
up my weary head and wiping my face and hands." 



The Dinner 

The dinner was served in the banquet hall of the ^"jj 
Biological Laboratory, Monday evening, which had been 
thoughtfully decorated by wives of ''j'j with rare good taste. 
The Class had as their guests Lawrence Hutton, A. D. 
Russell, F. O. Briggs and R. E. Annin. 

The Re-union song by Clark and the ode by Jenkins were 
both repeatedly sung during the dinner. 



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The Order of Exercises 

Prayer, By the Rev. George C. Barnes, A.M., Hamburg, N. J. 

Address by the President^ 

John Ai^exander Campbell, A.M., Trenton, N. J. 

Report of Committee on Prize Poem 

A Few Remarks, By the Toastmaster, William E. Annin, Denver, Col. 

Toasts 
Old Nassau, 

A place of free opinion and clear thinking, to us, the 

LOVING MOTHER, TO OUR SONS AND TO PEOPLE YET TO BE, 
AN INSPIRATION AND A REWARD. 

The Rev. William Emmet Slemmons, Washington, Penn. 

Thrice-loving mother, more than heart's desire, 
Till love he dead and faith and hope expire. 

Seventy-Seven, 

no doubt ye are the people and wisdom shall die with 

you. — job. xii.^ 2. 

George R. Van Dusen, A.M., Philadelphia, Pa. 

// half our children heed a tithe we say, 
Wisdom may live and he content to stay. 

Law, 

a career for the strenuous and a refuge for the weak. 

Hon. Walter Lloyd Smith, Elmira, N. Y. 

// Law grows lax, then Anarchy is horn. 
And wool and coupons both remain unshorn. 

Philosophy, 

to the ancients a pastime ; to the moderns a subject of 

condition. 

Alexander Taggart Ormond, Ph.D., Princeton, N. J. 

Though Folly marches zvith pedantic stride. 
The tests of Truth in Logic still reside. 

The Great West, 

A home of strong men and good women, destined BY prov- 
idence TO dominate the world. 

James F. Williamson, Ph.D., Minneapolis, Minn. 

If Western men had children hy the score, 
Incumbent fate would only call for more. 



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The Future, 

gracious, rich in promise, and certain in results. 

Henry Fairfield Osborn, LL.D., New York City. 

Though Satan smiled at Father Adam's fall. 
He knew that man would surely conquer all. 
The Past, 

a time when we were ourselves : now, possibly wiser, 

we lovingly and in our prime salute. 

Hon. John Biggs, Wilmington, Delaware. 

// bowed with care you seek this hallowed place, 
Banished is care and years have left no trace. 

The Princeton Spirit, 

to stand together, man by man, unmoved by failure, 
and sure of final success. 

The Rev. Wilton Merle Smith, DD., LL.D., New York City. 
Where Honor rules, there Honor loves to stay. 
To mark an epoch and expound the way. 

Welsh Ode, The Rev. David D. Jenkins, White's Valley, Pa. 



Re-Union Song, Class of 77, Princeton University, 
by Charles Sydney Clark 

Tune, "Son of a Gambolier." 

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I. 

When first we came to Princeton, way back in Seventy-three, 
We kept our friend Matt Goldie as busy as a bee. 
We got the best of Rutgers, and we showed what we could do 
When we won at Saratoga with our matchless Freshmen crew. 

chorus. 
Come join my humble ditty, I sing the Freshman crew. 
With Ben, and Jai, and Cal and Dad we overcome the Blue, 
And ev'ry son of Princeton threw up his hat to heaven, 
And swore there never was a class like Freshman Sev'nty-seven. 

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Was that our only triumph ? Oh, no, that wasn't all ! 
We soon began to show them we were "bully at base-ball." 
And how they cheered our Denny, our Jake, and Laughlin too, 
When we wiped the field with Harvard, and made monkeys of the 
Blue. 



CHORUS. 

Come join my humble ditty, and laurels fresh entwine 

For all the Old Reliables we gave the Princeton Nine. 

And while you are about it, an extra cheer with me 

For the men who made the Record Score of EIGHTEEN RUNS 

TO THREE! 

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If we had men of muscle, we had the men with brains, 
And dear old Jimmy loved us, and always took the pains 
To point us out to strangers — he knew us all by name — 
He said we were "a noisy mob," but loved us just the same. 

CHORUS. 

Come join my humble ditty, I sing the noble band 
Who've made the name of Princeton renowned in ev'ry land : 
Our scholars and our scientists, who search the earth and air, 
And trace the Gyascutus to his subterranean lair, 

IV. 

Our glorious Alma Mater, forever young and fair, 
Aroused herself from slumber when she found that we were there. 
We found her weak and wavering, we left her proud and strong. 
There's many a man in Seventy-seven who "helped the work along." 

CHORUS. 

Come join my humble ditty, I sing of Momo Pyne, 

(Some day they'll make him President — I hope he won't decline.) 

And all the other fellows who'll surely go to Heaven, 

Because they "whooped her up again" for dear old Seventy-seven. 

V. 

The first born of "New Princeton," we claim again to-day 
The shelter of her mother arms, when all our heads are gray. 
Let's show our younger brothers we're still the Princeton "boys," 
And "whoop her up for Sev'nty-seven." Let Annin lead the noise! 

CHORUS. 

Come join my humble ditty, I sing of Nassau Hall, 

Our first love and our last love, the love of one and all. 

And while a man remains to sing, and while our breath we draw, 



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[Tune of "Old Nassau."] 

"We'll all unite to shout and sing, 

Long life to old Nassau, 
Long life to Old Nassau, my boys. 

Long life to Old Nassau, 
Her sons will give while they shall live, 

Three cheers for Old Nassau." 



Ode of the Class of Seventy-Seven, Princeton 

University 

Written in Commemoration of the Twenty-fifth 

Anniversary of their Commencement 

Day, June g, 1902. 

"BRIGHT WAS THE DAY." 

Words by Rev. D. D. Jenkins, B.D. Music by Geo, Marks Evans. 

Bright was the day when earnest youth 

Bloomed into manhood strong ; 
When Alma Mater sent us forth 

To join the world's great throng. 
God blessed us with kind, noble wives. 

With gifted girls and boys; 
And loyalty to Nassau Hall 

Is chief est of their joys. 
And loyalty to Nassau Hall 

Is chiefest of their joys. 

CHORUS. 

Forever true is Seventy-seven, 

To God and Man and all. 
The best of life we'll ever give 

To honor Nassau Hall, 
The best of life we'll ever give 

To honor Nassau Hall. 

We've won the world's admiring gaze 

To merits true and bright, 
And many regions sought with zest 

Our service and our light. 



Immortal wreath of glory wov'n 

In noblest spirit giv'n ; 
Success and peace have brightly crown'd 

The days of Seventy-seven, 
Success and peace have brightly crown'd 

The days of Seventy-seven. — Cho. 

The smiles of Fortune we have won, 

In commerce, marts and life; 
Rich glowing vict'ries have been won, 

In competition's strife. 
We've grown in wealth of manhood, too, 

Beneath the smiles of Heaven ; 
And onward, upward is the march 

Of dear old Seventy-seven, 
And onward, upward is the march 

Of dear old Seventy-seven. — Cho. 



WITH the usual informality and entire disregard of age 
or dignity, the Class drew around the table. During 
the meal James W. Alexander, '70, Bayard Henry, '76, were 
ushered in and received the old, familiar greeting, to which 
they attempted to reply with the following result : 

Mr. James W. Ai^Exander, '70 — Gentlemen, I thank 
you very much for this kind reception ; I was afraid it would 
be considered an intrusion. 

But I want to say, by way of apology, that Bayard Henry 
took me and pulled me in. 

(A voice — "Is that the first man Bayard Henry ever 
pulled in?") 

I think I am a member of this Class. 

(A voice^ — "You are a little young, but we will own 
you.") 

It does me great good to be among a party of such young 
men. 

(A voice — "It does us good, too.") 



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The Class of 'yy has, ever since I can remember — ever 
since I graduated — been considered THE Class of Prince- 
ton University. (Applause.) 

(Dr. Kimball — "We were mostly on Mellin's Food when 
you graduated.") 

Dr. Kimball is always making professional remarks. I 
remember — 

(A voice — "We will suppress Kimball for awhile.") 
— I knew him before he could take any Mellin's Food. 
(Laughter.) I should like tO' gO' through your whole class 
— I do' not mean through your pockets — 

(A voice — "Give the old man a chance.") 

I am taking up a collection now — 

(A voice — "So are we.") 

I guess you are getting it. 

(John A. Campbell is our Treasurer.) 

I will see him later. 

Looking around the Class of '"jy, and seeing how much 
the members of this Class have done for Princeton — 

(A voice — "The Board of Trustees have done something, 
too, to-day.") 

That is so; they have. I do not know whether you ap- 
prove what has been done to-day. 

(Chorus — "Three cheers for Princeton" (all rising) !) 

So long as you mentioned this subject, let me say, in all 
seriousness, that we all of us owe to Dr. Patton a debt of 
gratitude that can never be repaid. (Applause.) I do not 
mean for resigning the presidency ; I would not be guilty of 
making such a remark, but I believe that Dr. Patton wished 
to lay down the burdens which were growing greater and 
greater to him on the administrative side of this great insti- 
tution, and take the pleasure of rest in order to carry out 
certain purposes of his in regard to writing, and with his 
usual nerve and resolution and manliness, when he thought 
the time had come to resign his position he did it in such a 



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way that he cut off all opportunity for any of his friends to 
make a protest. He put matters in such a light to those 
who had to act on this question that, whether they were 
friendly tO' him, or whether they were not — and they were 
all friendly — they had nothing to say about it. I never saw 
a thing done in a more manly, straight-forward, magnifi- 
cent way in my life. And from that first step to the last 
his conduct has been such as tO' make every member of the 
Board of Trustees, and everyone who' has had anything to 
do with the conduct of the affairs of the college, respect him 
even more than we respected him before. (Applause.) 

I tell you, gentlemen, Doctor Patton is a great man, and 
we never saw him to better advantage in his greatness than 
at this time, which must have been a trying time to him. 
When it was found that Dr. Patton was really determined to 
lay aside the robes of ofifice, it was thought by him and by 
the Board of Trustees that if there could be a spontaneous 
and unanimous choice of a successor it would be greatly to 
the benefit of the institution — there would be no inter- 
regnum, no opportunity for idle gossip and for misconcep- 
tion. And the moment that that settlement was put into 
form, and the time came for expression of opinion, I must 
say that those of us who have been brought up to believe 
in Divine Providence were driven to the conclusion that 
there was some higher power at work than the humans that 
were attending to the business to-day. Such unanimity, 
such spontaneity I never saw in my life. There was no 
division; there was but one ballot, one nomination, and 
members of the Board of Trustees who came in later, and 
who had heard nothing about the action, all mentioned the 
same name. The new President, Woodrow Wilson, was 
elected almost by acclamation. (Cheers and applause.) 

It seems to me this is a very remarkable thing. I do' not 
suppose it has ever occurred in the history of any institution 
before. I think it will call down — it ought to call down — 



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the admiring comments of the world on the conduct of our 
affairs. I think that the election of Woodrow Wilson will 
commend itself tO' the academic world in general. I can say, 
from the single note which is heard about the Campus 
to-day, it commends itself tO' the Alumni. I have talked 
with many members of the Faculty to-day, and I have not 
found one who does not say that the selected man is a good 
one. 

Dr. Patton has been with the Committee to- announce to 
Dr. Wilson his election, and made a speech to him on that 
occasion which, I am told, was a perfect gem of generosity, 
of magnanimity, of splendid Princeton spirit, and of promise 
of everything that he can do- to uphold and back up the new 
President in his administration. All relations are 
cordial — the Board of Trustees, the outgoing President, the 
incoming President, and no state of affairs could be better 
than it is to-day, and the future of Princeton is to-day bright 
with promise. Thank you. (Great applause.) 

(Calls for "Henry, Henry, Henry.") 

Bayard H^nry, 'y6 — Mr. Alexander has made my 
speech. I have nothing tO' say but tO' endorse all he said to 
us to-night. Great things have happened in Princeton 
to-day. I thank you for your courtesy. 

("Here's to '76. Speech, speech.") 

So' far as. '76 and 'yy are concerned, you know exactly the 
relations. There is not very much difference. We hazed 
you all in such a way that we made men of you. 
(Laughter.) The relations between the two classes remind 
me of the story of the old lady, whom you must have heard 
of, who was dying down at Penn's Neck. A member of my 
Class, who was a clergyman, went to minister to her during 
her last few hours, and he said to her : "My good woman, 
you cannot be here long; you are fast passing." She said: 
"Yes, I know; I will soon be over the Jordan; I will soon 
be in the Promised Land." "Yes, sister, you cannot be here 



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long; your time has come." "Yes," she said, "Yes, I will 
soon be in Beelzebub's bosom." "Oh, no," said my friend 
and classmate, "Abraham's bosom." "Oh, well," said she, 
"It don't matter much to a widow what the gentleman's 
name is after twenty-five years of widowhood." (Laughter 
and applause.) 

Now, a crowd of '76 and 'yy can get together, and I don't 
think it makes much difference what Class it is, '76 or 'yy, it 
is Abraham's bosom to us all. (Applause.) When we get 
back to Princeton we are at the gate of Heaven, almost in 
the promised land. 

As far as what has taken place to-day is concerned, Mr. 
Alexander has expressed the sentiments, I think, of every- 
one — that Dr. Patton has acted most magnanimously; he 
has laid down his work, but with a promise that, as the 
head of the Department of Ethics, the chair of Ethics, he 
wilt support his successor in every way possible, and do' all 
he can for the advancement of the interests of Princeton 
University. 

(Cheers for Bayard Henry.) 

(Song, "Here's to '76.) 

(Song, "Here's to '70.) 

(Song, "Here's to '77.) 

John A. Campbeli^, President — The evening is young, 
but we have a long program. I therefore intend to intro- 
duce tO' you a gentleman whose presence is always indis- 
pensable tO' the success of our dinners. I refer to the 
greatest toastmaster on earth, William E. Annin. 

(Rising cheers for Annin.) 

W11.1.IAM E. Annin, Toastmaster — Gentlemen of the 
Class of 'yy : If we can have a little quiet at times, and if 
you will permit me to save a voice which, through cheering 
over the victory over Yale, and joining in the enjoyments 
of the undergraduates and the Alumni to-day over the Class 



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exercises of 1902, is not quite as strong as it once was, I 
shall try to call up from time to time a few of the inconse- 
quential men who have been selected, without our knowl- 
edge or consent, to speak on this extraordinary occasion. 
(Hear, hear.) 

Later in the evening I will make the few remarks which 
seem to have been expected of me; but, as the night is 
getting rather old, and there are two hours of addresses to 
be made, I think it would be better to^ postpone the address 
by the President, John Alexander Campbell, to call for the 
report of the Committee on Prize Poem, which will be 
delivered by the Rev. — no, Mr. Francis Speir, Jr. 

Francis Spe^ir, Jr. — Fellows, if you will let me have 
the floor, I will try and get through as soon as possible. 

Gentlemen — The Committee on "Prize Poems" respect- 
fully report as follows : 

The surprising interest manifested by the class in the prize contest 
was demonstrated by the number of answers received to the circular 
inviting competition. The prize, as you well know, consists of the 
complete philosophical works of Professor Alexander Taggart Ormond. 
We regret that the time limit barred Jotham Potter, who wrote those 
stirring lines : 

"The joyous natal day has come, 
When manhood leaps to life" — etc. 

and also Charles Sidney Clark, whose class poem has been the inspira- 
tion of so many ; but your rules were our law. 
The conditions of the contest were simple, but insistent : 

1. All contestants to deHneate their achievements or aspirations in 
rhythmical form. 

2. All contestants to submit with the poem offered a newspaper or 
magazine criticism thereon. 

The contest is so close that the Committee determined to select the 
best seven, to submit these to the class, with their recommendation, but 
to ask that the prize be awarded by class vote. 

The following are the seven selected poems, with title, name of 
author as signed, and newspaper criticism given in full as submitted. 



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Hon. Wii^IvIAm B. Bryan. 

"At a recent meeting of the famous Gridiron Club of Washington, 
among the guests were William B. Bryan, of the Washington Star, and 
W. J. Bryan, of the Nebraska Commoner. 

"After Hon. W. J. Bryan had electrified the assembly by his eloquent 
periods, Hon. William B. Bryan arose and in a captivating drawl, but 
with flashing eye, read the following poem, entitled 'Second Fiddle.' It 
is a daisy." — Washington Star. 

SECOND FIDDLE. 

My name is Bryan — William B. — 
And I am good, as you can see. 
I work all day upon the "Star" 
And seldom go where bad men are. 

I teach the Public through the Press 
Of how to think and how to dress. 
And often talk before a crowd, 
Because my voice is nice and loud. 

Another Bryan comes along. 

Who bears my name and sings my song; 

His voice is louder far than mine. 

His choice of words is still more fine. 

I aimed to strike a golden note ; 
He pandered to the silver vote ; 
And when I seemed so sure of fame, 
He seized the honors of the name. 

We neither caught the people's ear — 
Just edit papers by the year — 
No Bryan in the White House sits. 
So I can grin and call it quits. 

My name is Bryan — William B. — 
And I am good, as you can see. 
I work all day upon the "Star" 
And seldom go where bad men are. 



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Hon. James O'Hara Denny, 

"At a meeting of the literary coterie of the Pittsburg Gun Club, Mr. 
J. O. H. Denny delighted his friends assembled by reading an original 
poem describing his experience as a competitor for honors at the 
world's live bird shooting tournament, held at Monaco. This poem we 
are able to print, owing to the kindness of his brother Frank. It is a 
credit to Pittsburg." — Pittsburg Journal. 



life's disappointment. 

To Monte Carlo I was bound, across the azure sea, 
To win the pigeon handicap and make a name for me. 

I packed my splendid Manton gun, took smokeless shells galore. 
Then bought a million stogies mild, and left my native shore. 

Jacobus wished me all success. "Now, Jim," said he, "aspire. 
And when you down those foreign jays, send me at once a wire." 

If health be good, if aim be true, and heart be free from care, 
A sporting life excels a king's; what can with that compare? 

A little Dago won the cup ; I made a great mistake. 

So packed my grip and left that day, and did not wire to Jake. 

I hied me back to Ligonier, to seek for peace and rest; 
Now Sunday finds me in the church, where all is of the best. 

I do not dote on Monaco — I view it with a frown — 
I much prefer our county fair to any Dago town. 



AivEXANDER T. Ormond. 

"At the Philosophical Seminar held last Thursday, Professor Ormond 
read with telling effect the following lines, which he said epitomized the 
position of the world's ethical leaders. The poem is entitled 'The Three 
Masters.' It is said that Prof. Van Dyke wept when he read it." — 
Princeton Bulletin. 



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THE THREE MASTERS. 

Plato and Kant and Ormond, 

How pleasant the names do sound! 
Wherever they touch a subject 

They cover the widest ground. 

Infinite depth is Plato's 

A wonder in all but birth; 
First in the realm of reason 

To sever the thrall of earth. 

Kant is an age, an epoch, 

Delightful beyond compare. 
Eloquent, simple, silent, — 

His talents I know I share. 

Last is the modern master, 
And best is the word he brings, 

Passing by airy nothings. 
He pierces the heart of things. 

Plato and Kant and Ormond, 

How pleasant the names do sound! 
Wherever they touch a subject 

They cover the widest ground. 



Hon. John Biggs. 

"The names of Hon. John Biggs and of the State of Delaware are so 
interwoven in our people's minds that his passionate apostrophes to our 
beloved State are largely autobiographical in nature. 

"The following exquisite lines, entitled 'The Future,' were read at 
a recent meeting of the Delaware Bar Association, and were greeted 
with the just appreciation they deserved." — Delaware Patriot. 

THE FUTURE. 

How I love you, Delaware ! 
Do you know, or can you care 
That I yearn to make you fine, 
Honored, happy, — truly mine? 

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Not for you was Addick's gold; 
With you, office is not sold ; 
What you want is but to feel 
Silken speech and hand of steel. 

When you need me, I am here, 

Toiling in my chosen sphere; 

When you speak, though Heaven may fall, 

I shall answer Duty's call. 

How I love you, Delaware ! 
You must know, and you must care, 
That you are supremely fine 
Honored, happy, truly mine! 



Moses Taylor Pyne:. 

"On its being announced that Professor West had determined to go 
to Harvard, Woodrow Wilson to Yale, and that C. C. Cuyler had re- 
solved to devote his energies exclusively to the College of the City 
of New York, the following touching lines, entitled 'Lamentations,' 
appeared in the Poets' Corner of the Princeton Press, signed M. T. P." : 

IvAMENTATIONS. 

why goes West to Harvard? 
Ho, Woodrow, why to Yale? 

Has Orris proved a failure? 
Is Nassau Hall for sale? 

■ When Sloane and Osborn left us. 

And Duff to glory went, 

1 knew the Norns were cruel. 

Yet hoped their wrath was spent. 

But Cuyler, precious Cuyler, 
What made him change his views? 

And leave this lovely College, 
To boss a crowd of Jews? 

These latter days are grievous, 
And marked with stinging fate. 
For in the soul of Friendship 
Is born the lust of Hate. 



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r murmur, "Et tu, Brute," 
When C. C.'s face I see, 

And think of dying Caesar, — 
I know he felt like me. 

Yet we have ancient greatness, 
And men of whom we sing. 

While Libby shoots the mesa. 
We stand within the ring. 



Roi,i.iN H. Lynde). 

"Mr. Rollin H. Lynde, the well-known lawyer, who is of New York's 
celebrated social Four Hundred (as he was of South Orange's), has 
two pastimes — golfing and verse writing. His mashie shots are the 
dream of aspirants on the Baltusrol links. His poems have the true 
Voltairean flavor in a Tennysonian setting so longed for by masters 
of versification. Mr. Lynde may not be able to repeat the Bible by 
heart, but he certainly knows the book of Ecclesiastes. It would take 
a trip to Baltusrol to prove him to be a great golfer, but a casual glance 
at our issue of to-day establishes his claims to be in the class with 
Mr. Markham and the Indiana cycle of American poets." — South 
Orange Bulletin. 

UNES ON MY BUTI^ER. 

Oh, I can tell you, it is fine 

To own a mansion on a street, 
To have a butler when you dine. 

And live a life that's just complete. 

I know my butler thinks me crude — 
He drinks my whiskey, steals my plate — 

My carpet slippers are tabooed. 
And dinner now is fearful late. 

If I but smoke my bulldog pipe, 
Instead of Turkish cigarettes, 
' He frowns as if he'd like to swipe 

The one thing left of all my pets. 

At night I don my swallow-tail, 

Yet kinder long for pork and beans — 

Instead, I'm served with toasted quail, 
And things like that, that suit my means. 



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Yes, every day since he has come. 
To social fetes I meekly bow, 

And operas and lectures hum — 
I'm strictly in it, I allow. 

Some day I'll kick that butler out, 

Sell cheap my house and Bay State gas, 

And then you boys will hear me shout. 
When what I plan has come to pass. 

But yet, I tell you, it is fine 
To own a mansion on a street, 

To have a butler when you dine. 
And live a life that's ust complete. 



W11.UAM E. Annin. 

"It is rumored that that brilliant journalist William E. Annin, who 
is now among our most distinguished citizens, is at work on a magnum 
opus. It is understood that at the quarter century anniversary of the 
great Class of ^^^ of Princeton University, he will delicately make 
known the fact in well-pitched lines of tantalizing suggestiveness. 
Billy Annin knows more theology than the minister of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, more politics than Senator Wolcott, and can give 
Joe Rickey points on other fundamentals. Thanks to our friendship 
with his stenographer, we have been able to beat a hated rival and 
have obtained a copy of his poem, which breathes the very spirit of 
our great and glorious West." — Denver Post Herald. 



IN CONFIDENCE. 

I have roamed about the country, I have walked the city's streets, 

And everywhere I've sought to taste the best ; 
I have met Wyoming "rustlers" and I've seen Chicago beats, 

But now it's time to stop and take a rest. 

So here in Colorado, with its cactus and its kine. 

The deserts and the mountains with their gold, 
I shall watch the twelve months linger, I shall make their minutes mine, 

And get as much of rest as I can hold. 



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I have bought a bucking broncho and have learned to ride him well — 

There's nothing like a gallop fast as sin — 
And I've heard the voice of Nature, who has told me much to tell, 

And now I very shortly shall begin. 

I had watched the pageant moving, I had seen enough of men, 

And work had kept me ever on the drive; 
Now, at last, the time is coming when I'll take my fountain pen, 

And paint you men and women all alive. 

In the shaping of the chapters I have kept the motif clear — 

Virginibus puerisque — if you please — 
You must wait until my opus fully finished doth appear, 

When I want your word upon it at your ease. 

Now take my heartfelt greetings — I can see you gather near — 

See "Kim" get up and talk, as Kimball will — 
And the Babel it continues — thanks to Balloch in the rear — 

While Campbell does his best to make you ill. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Francis Speir^ Jr.^ A. M., 
Wm. F. Dunning, A. M,, 
WiivTON MkrIvE Smith, D.D., LL.D., 
Princeton, June 7th, 1902. Committee. 

Great applause and long-continued cheers greeted Speir 
at the close of his report, which was enjoyed most of all 
by the surprised contestants ( ?). 

Henry Faireiei^d Osborn — I move three cheers for 
Professor Cyrus F. Brackett, the great teacher of physics, 
who has just entered the hall. 

(Three rising cheers for "Brackett.") 

(Calls for "speech, speech, speech.") 

Henry Faireiei^d Osborn — Before Professor Brackett 
rises to speak, I want to tell you just in a word that there 
were two inspirations in the course of 'yy : One came from 
Dr. Brackett, in the physical world; the other came from 



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Dr. McCosh, in the world of psychology and ethics. Some- 
times men go so far astray as to think that men of literature 
can get nothing from science. One morning recently a man 
of letters, who has made considerable name for himself, a 
graduate of Princeton University, said to me: "In looking 
back over my college course, although subsequently I gave all 
my time to literature, yet I feel the greatest touch that I had 
with the world came from Professor Brackett's course in 
Physics." (Cheers.) 

Wii^WAM E. Annin^ Toast-Master — I want to add a 
word to what Osborn has said. He has spoken about Dr. 
Brackett's influence in the physical world, or the world of 
physics, and of Dr. McCosh' s influence in the philosophical 
world. I wish to speak of Dr. Brackett's influence in the 
moral world. I shall never forget one day when Dr. 
Brackett was moving. From down Nassau street came a 
great load of furniture, bureaus, drawers and other things, 
with Dr. Brackett on top. And as he passed by he waived 
his hand and called out to me : "Rum did it." Here was a 
great lesson in the moral world, and the lesson in temper- 
ance went to my heart then, and has never passed away 
from me since. Will Dr. Brackett now make himself 
heard ? 

Dr. Bracke^tt — We all entered Princeton some time. I 
think I entered Freshman the same time you did. You 
graduated in '"jy^ I was dropped, and have remained stick- 
ing in the same old place since. You make me feel very 
much like Lyman Beecher's congregation felt when some 
one straggled in very late one day. He chided the con- 
gregation against being late, and urged them to be prompt 
at service. The man I am talking of got in very late, in- 
deed — between prayers and benediction — and Dr. Beecher 
said : "Oh, Lord, we thank Thee that those who come early 
have lessons to learn, and we pray for Thy infinite compas- 



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sion and mercy to them ; and those who come just in time to 
receive the benediction we will ask Thee to bless them also." 
(Laughter and applause.) And the straggler said: "I have 
neither drunk your rum nor eaten your provisions, but there 
is one thing I want to say, It does me good ; it is more re- 
freshing than eating to see your faces.' " And so with me. 

(A voice — "It does us good to see you.") 

Wherever I find a Princeton man, I am always sure to 
find a hearty greeting. In every region of the world where 
I have happened to be — on steamboat, railway, either in this 
country or any other — I am quite sure to find some Prince- 
ton man who will say some such kind word as my friend 
Professor Osborn has said. 

One of the funniest experiences I ever had I will tell you. 
Some years ago I was in Edinboro, and an old student 
whom I did not recognize at all was in a crowded assem- 
blage at an agricultural fair. There were some military 
evolutions carried on at the same time. The various clans, 
in their tartans, were parading, and all at once a man came 
up and struck me on the back and says, "What in the devil 
are you here for?" And I turned to him and said, "Well, 
what are you here for?" I recognized him at once. He 
said, "Come back here, I will show you what I have been 
doing." We went back a little distance, near a booth, and 
we saw a lady and a maid and a baby carriage coming to- 
ward us. I looked at the carriage, and I saw a little piece of 
red humanity about that long (indicating) ; was introduced 
formally, and we parted. Two years ago I took up my mail 
in the morning and found a letter addressed from Phila- 
delphia, which began: "Some years ago I met you at the 
Agricultural Fair Grounds near Edinboro. Since then I 
entered the kindergarten ; I have gone through the primary 
school, the finishing school, graduated from college and 
spent two years in Johns Hopkins University in the study of 
medicine. On the strength of our former acquaintance, I 



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am now appealing to you for a recommendation to secure a 
certain appointment which is very desirable.'' It was this 
little fellow I had seen in the carriage. You will notice the 
Princeton cheek, that it took right, even in the second gen- 
eration. And I had no hesitation whatever in sitting down 
and writing a fair recommendation of what I knew of him 
as a student. 

I will not take your time any further ; I am always happy 
to meet every one of you. 

(Mr. Dunning — ^As members of the Scientific Expedi- 
tion of 'yy, Princeton University — College, then — Doctor, 
I salute you.) 

WiivTON MerIvE) Smith — We owe a great deal to Dr. 
Brackett. I just want to< mention one thing that took place 
in Dr. Brackett's class-room, which, I think, some of you 
will remember. You know Prank Speir was one of the 
brightest fellows in our Class, but he had a mighty hard time 
to get through college, especially physics. I remember 
when we came toi final examination, I came first, fizzled, 
flunked through. Then it was Frank's turn. Dr. Brackett 
turned to him and said: "Well, Mr. Speir, can you tell us 
how we can get the specific gravity of liquids ?" Frank put 
on that beautiful saintly smile, and with that soft, gentle 
voice said : "By certain very definite methods, well known to 
scientific investigators." (Laughter and applause.) 

WiiviviAM E. Annin, Toastmaster — Fellows, we have 
here a series of very serious toasts, which, unless the per- 
sons who respond to them are brief and to the point, will 
carry us beyond commencement day. The first regular 
toast of the evening is to "Old Nassau," tO' be responded to 
by the Rev. William Emmet Slemmons, who, despite his 
title and the fact that he is, or ought to be, a Doctor of 
Divinity, I notice sang a few moments ago, with wide-open 
mouth and a heavenly smile on his face, a dear old song. 



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"We will never get drunk any more." Mr. Slemmons has 
kindly consented to come the distance from Washington, 
Pennsylvania, to respond to the sentiment of "Old Nassau. 
A Place of Free Opinion and Clear Thinking. To us, the 
loving mother; to our sons and to people yet to be, an 
inspiration and a reward." I now have the pleasure of 
introducing to you the man who was perhaps the most 
popular member of the Class whilst he was here, but who 
has not since that time assisted in making the assemblies of 
the Class the most populous, the Rev. William Emmet 
Slemmons. 

(Rising cheers for Mr. Slemmons.) 

Rev. William Emmet Slemmons — Mr. President, and 
Fellow Classmates: It would have been, of course, more 
proper for some of the blank literary fellows to have 
responded to this toast; but, after the irresistible introduc- 
tion by Annin, who will keep quiet to-night while I am 
talking, I cannot refuse to say something about Old Nassau. 
"Sallie" Speir, when he wrote me last week, said — and I 
see him as he said it — "The toasts are to be short, crisp, 
and to the point." (Applause.) I shall try to be short, if 
I am not crisp and to the point. 

And the first thing I want to say is that the very name 
of Old Nassau is a historic name, and on that account stands 
out amongst the college names of this country as unique. 
Who knows who John Harvard was, except as the man who 
founded Harvard University for the character of an educa- 
tion which, I think, has long since been departed from, and 
I am glad of that. Who knows who Elihu Yale was? 
Who knows who Mr. Cornell was, except as the man that 
founded a technical school at Ithaca. But every time that 
Nassau is mentioned people all over this wide world have 
historic facts called up to their mind. Free opinion, the 
principles which, not speaking from a religious standpoint 
merely, Protestant principles, come up and the men that 



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founded this college were the men who founded an insti- 
tution where free opinion has been, and we hope to God 
ever will be, tolerated and encouraged. (Applause.) 

The next thing I want to say is that the orthography or 
orthoepy — is that right, Polly? — of this name is a great 
thing. Why, you know how "Nassau" fits the throat and 
is melody even to the ear of the savages that come here to 
Commencement. And those words, "Old Nassau," are 
words you know that came out in the best college song that 
was ever written. I cannot sing, but after I got married — 
and I have found one of the best wives tO' be had in the 
world — I tried to sing her this song; and the dear woman 
said to me: "The man whose blood would not pound 
through his veins at that song is a chump." 

(Mr. SpEir — "Three cheers for Mrs. Slemmons.") 

(Three rising cheers.) 

I thank you cordially. 

Then there is another thing I want to say about this name, 
and that is this, that the thing that appeals to' us all when 
we think of Old Nassau is the sort of life that is here in the 
town of Princeton. This is the ideal spot, it seems tO' me, 
in America for education. There is a camaradeirie , there 
is an acquaintance here, there is a feeling that men have 
that they know the man who' is in this institution; and it 
will be so, no matter how large Princeton may grow. That 
is something that does not obtain in every institution of 
learning in this country — very few. And our hearts go out 
to the men whom we have met here; our hearts go out in 
pride, as we think of the long history of honor that Nassau 
Hall has had in the men that have manned this institution 
and have given her her place in this world. 

Now, it is the fashion in these days, I believe, to look 
with a sort of — well, a side look — at the crass realism of 
Dr. McCosh. I know nothing about that. You know. 
Senator, fellows that know all about crass realism, but I 



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have seen that term used in the books — this is what I want 
to say : There is a picttfre in my mind, and it is the grandest 
picture that is there. It is the nearest approach I know of 
yet to what I expect the real man to be. Dr. McCosh had his 
faults, that is true ; we know that ; every man has ; and we 
know some O'f his faults ; and yet, notwithstanding that, how 
he towers, how that expansive brow shone (applause), how 
that eye of his flashed, illuminated, when he talked. You 
remember how he did it when he stood there and talked to 
us about what Plato said, and what Plato was. Why, it 
was inspiration to a man to learn something about the man 
of whom he talked. And I tell you, tO' use his own favorite 
expression, as I sat in his class-room I felt that the Lord, if 
I had any sort of mind tO' know anything about philosophy, 
would open the heavens and let the baptism of the knowl- 
edge of the science that he taught come down upon me 
*'like a cloud, like a thick cloud, like a cloud big with rain." 
(Applause.) 

There is a man about whom I should like to speak as my 
heart would dictate, but he is in this room, and I cannot do 
more than tell him that the very thought of him, of what he 
was as a man — though I did not amount to anything in 
physics, but the thought of what Dr. Brackett was as a 
man — ^has been an inspiration to me. (Applause.) They 
speak of Dr. Brackett's scientific achievements, and Annin 
has, in a sort of unintelligible way (applause) spoken of 
his moral character, but I want to speak of the practical 
man that Brackett was, and the practical principles that he 
instilled in us. I have never forgotten what he taught 
us, among other things that he did teach us, and it is one 
of the most valuable lessons I have ever learned — that the 
great thing in this world is gumption. Don't you remember 
that? And so, as we are about in this wide world, and I 
have not been here often, and it has not been because my 
heart has not been here — 



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(A voice — "No, Billy, we know that.") 
— my thoughts have turned tO' Princeton, and I know that 
the thoughts of the members of this Class have. 

I travel in thought from the Greeks to Darwin with Polly 
Osborn, ani I have blank basal concepts of philosophy, 
"Senator," and I have tried tO' get down tO' the foundations 
of knowledge. And then, you know, there are other men, 
many others here, of whom I might speak — whenever I 
violate the canons of good taste, tell me — I think we have 
a gentleman whose picture I saw once in the Youth's (Com- 
panion^ Edwin Manners, always a standard for us here. 
(Laughter.) Then, you know, there is our friend of whom 
I am reminded every time I see a man with mutton-chop 
whiskers, though I do not know. Dad, how I shall ever again 
think of you; you have altogether changed. 

I want to say another word before I sit down, and that 
word is this : that a great thing seems to me has happened 
to-day in Princeton. (Applause.) I am not the man, of 
course, who is competent to^ speak of the administration of 
Dr. Patton. I honor him; as much as any man can. Dr. 
Patton makes the best after-dinner speech that I, in my lim- 
ited experience, have ever heard, and I have no^ doubt his 
administration has been what it ought to be. But it seems 
tO' me to-day a great advance has taken place in the history 
of Princeton. My friend Glass and I were talking about the 
matter. Princeton has always been metropolitan. Prince- 
ton now has been nationalized by the selection of that emi- 
nent scholar, who not only writes mere literature, but does 
other great work. 

I thank you, fellows, for your kindness to me in al- 
lowing me tO' testify to the love that I feel for Old Nassau. 

(Cheers.) (Three cheers for Princeton.) 

(Song, "Old Nassau.") 

W11.UAM E. Annin, Toastmaster — Gentlemen, the 
regular toasts of the evening have started off at high-water 



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mark. Mr. Slemmons has justified the confidence of his 
friends and disappointed the expectation of his enemies — if 
he has any. 

But the second toast of the evening has been given to one 
of the most eloquent members of the Class, Mr. George R. 
Van Dusen, one of the most prominent of the rising lawyers 
of Philadelphia. (Applause.) 

Mr. Van Dusen will respond to the toast of ''No doubt, 
ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. — Job 
XII., 2," which was given to him by the pastor of the Sec- 
ond Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, of which he ex- 
pects, sometime, to- become a member. 

("Yea, yea, yea, yea.") 

(Class song of '"J^j.^ 

(Three cheers for VanDusen.) 

George R. Van Dusen — Fellows : I looked all over these 
elaborate programs, four or five of them that we had here, 
in different shapes, until Harry Osborn washed mine under 
the table with his wine, and on them I saw many quota- 
tions, but I failed tO' see the motto of this Class, which, as 
I remember it, was "Panta Kinomen Petron." Now, the 
only way I can account for my having been called upon to 
respond to this toast to-night is that the Committee had that 
motto in mind. In prior years you have had before you the 
brilliant diamonds and polished shafts, but having come to 
the bottom of the pile — the Committee, true to the class 
motto, have picked me out as one of the pebbles. 

Why are we the people? If you had read the book of Job 
in the original with the fidelity of Charlie Evans or Bar ties, 
you would have found out that it was this that Job said: 
"No doubt, but you are the people and wisdom shall perish 
with you." 

And then he said : "What ye know, the same do I know 
also; I am not inferior unto you," and it was this that led 
him toi prophesy, recognizing that fact, that the Class of 



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^yy would be the people, because, from the moment we 
stepped on this campus, it mattered not what the man was, 
or whence he came, whether he was the "polished blade of 
Damascus, or forged on the humblest anvil," so long as the 
metal rang true he was the man for us. (Yea, yes, yea.) 
And when did the metal fail to ring true in the Class of '']'] ? 
But the Committee told me — and when I speak of the 
Committee I refer tO' Francis Speir, Jr. — that tjjere was 
one characteristic of the Class of 'y^j that had never been 
fully brought out. That was its modesty. It is of tbjs I 
want to speak a little to-night. We developed it at once 
when three of our members took the senior seats in chapel 
on the first night. It has continued ever since. In fact, 
it put toi shame Sarah Wigton's head and Ann RowelFs 
face; I mean the face of Rowell of twenty-seven years ago-, 
and the head of Sarah of twenty-seven years ago. You 
remember, it continued at our graduation. You, perhaps, 
recall that beautiful poem of Pitney' s — ^by the way, I have 
seen it paraphrased many times without credit being given 
to the author — ^I remember one stanza in reference to Wil- 
liam L"ibbey, on Commencement Day: 

"See, now, great 'Sneezer' takes his fling, 

His sheepskin in his hand 
He wonders if 

In Heaven above, or Sheol beneath, or earth between, 
there's anything 
He does not understand." 

I do not see how we are going to attend that — ^what do 
they call it? — Alumni Dinner to-morrow in the Casino, or 
merry-go-round, without William Ubbey. But I have been 
informed, by one of the journalists, Mr. Glass, that I should 
take consolation from the fact that he has had a private 
cable, in which it is said that William Libbey is to act as the 
footstool at the coronation of King Edward, 



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Recently I had another illustration. I thought that the 
Class had gotten a little blase, and was getting over its mod- 
esty, but a few months agO' I was compelled to go to what 
some people call the "Sunny South," and there I met one 
of the most beautiful and charming young ladies I ever 
knew, notwithstanding the fact that she seemed to have 
quite a good opinion of Billy Dunning. After learning I 
knew Billy, she said to me : "Oh, perhaps you have met Dr. 
Andrew James McCosh?'' I said to her that a quarter of 
a century ago I used to lend him my room on Sunday morn- 
ings tO' play poker in while Ingus Pyne, Patrick Remsen, 
P. B. Vail, Reckless Parker and I conducted an Episcopal 
Mission on the other side of Rocky Hill. (Applause.) 
Her mother, who' was sitting by, spoke up and said : "Yes, 
and he took the appendix out of my daughter." And the 
young lady said : "Yes, and he is the sweettest man I ever 
knew, and — and — and the most modest." (Applause.) 

Now, gentlemen, what is the use of talking about it ? We 
are the greatest Class that ever graduated from this or any 
other University. Everybody says so, and why should we 
not admit it? (Laughter.) It reminds me of the old story 
that has been floating down the — 

(A voice: "Centuries.") 

No, not quite the centuries, but has been floating down 
the legal annals of the State of Pennsylvania for the last 
sixty years, and which, by the way, I heard a Princeton 
professor get off within two weeks as a fresh Jersey straw- 
berry. It is this : Two members of the bar were disputing 
as to who was the greatest lawyer in the State. A third one 
came along, and they appealed to him, and he said : "I am." 
"You?" "Yes, I am." They said: "Prove it." "I don^t 
have to; I admit it." (Laughter.) 

Now, boys, here we are to-night, and I look around and 
say seriously that we are a happy, contented, and, in the 
true sense, prosperous set of men. (Applause.) We are 



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the finest looking set of forty-five-year-old kinds than can 
be found on this or any other Campus. And I believe that 
we have more than enough hair left, exclusive of Remsen, 
to furnish a first-class mattress for any seashore hotel. 
(Laughter.) 

I do not think we need to dilate on that, because I have 
been told to be brief. I will try to be. But if there is one 
thing that the Class of ''jy has done, it has been to work all 
the time for Princeton. (Applause.) From the time we 
left, we can be said to have never sat down. We havei>een 
on our feet all the time for Princeton. 

I am delighted with what we have heard from Dr. 
Alexander and Mr. Bayard Henry, who' ought to be a 
doctor — the Lord knows of what. I did think that what the 
Class of 'yy needed to do more than anything else was to 
inject some virus, or something, into a portion of the organi- 
zation O'f this University; and I am^ glad that that is not 
now necessary. I should have liked tO' see the President 
come from the Class of 'yj, but, as we had to gO' out of the 
Class, I do not think there is any man that any of us would 
rather have, nor any one certainly whom we all know better, 
than "Tommy" Wilson. 

Now, boys, as I say, we are modest; and we always have 
been. However, we can say that whatever has been done 
in Princeton since we entered, from the removal of South 
Campus to the erection of the new Gymnasium, '"jy has had 
a hand in. Wisdom may or may not perish with us. But 
whatever be its, or our fate, I think we can say to-night, 
modestly and sincerely, that at the end of twenty-five years 
we have, in the words of our class ode, "proved" : 

"That we have striven 
For God and self and Nassau Hall 
And good old 'Tj!' 

(Applause.) 



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Mr. SpEir — I propose three cheers for George R. Van 
Dtisen, of Philadelphia. 
(Rising cheers.) 

WiLiviAM E. Annin — Gentlemen, I think all of us who 
know Mr. Van Dusen, and some of us who have but a very 
slight acquaintance with him, feel that he has done rather 
better than was expected of him on this occasion, and, al- 
though some of his stories were not viriginbtis puerisque, yet 
that his sentiments, and the trend of his remarks, so to speak, 
were such as have met with the approval of all present. 
We rather expected to call upon Mr. Van Dusen to speak 
upon the toast of "Law,'' but, after consulting with his 
partner, Mr. Scott, we found it was better to give him some 
other subject. (Laughter.) 

The Committee, therefore, decided to assign the very 
important subject of ''The Law" — tO' be discussed within 
five minutes — to- the Hon. Walter Lloyd Smith, of Elmira, 
New York, whose glory while he was in Princeton was that 
he was the twin brother of Wilton Merle Smith (laughter), 
the pitcher of the University team, but who' has shown since 
that a close connection with politics and the law has brought 
him more emoluments and distinction than graduation from 
a Theological Seminary. Judge Smith, a member of the 
Supreme Court of the State of New York, was therefore 
chosen to respond to the toast of "The Law, a career for 
the strenuous and a refuge for the weak," with the senti- 
ment : 

"If Law grows lax, then anarchy is born, 
And wool and coupons both remain unshorn," 

Walter Smith will take the floor for five minutes, or less. 
(Three cheers for Smith.) 

Wai^ter Lloyd Smith — Mr. Toastmaster and Boys: 
The beginning of Van Dusen' s speech reminded me very 
much of the old story which you all have heard — 

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(A voice — "Here she comes.") 
— of the man who frequently got drunk. His wife pro- 
tested, and he explained that he was invited to drink so 
much and could not well refuse. His wife said to him : 
"Why then, John, when you have had enough, why don't 
you call for sarsaparilla ?" "My dear," he said, "when I 
have had enough I cannot pronounce sarsaparilla." 
(Laughter.) 

Fellows, I am not sure that Van Dusen was not the 
proper one to respond to the toast of the law. You. re- 
member when they had the Judiciary Centennial in New 
York, where many prominent jurists and lawyers were 
present, Mr. Choate got up and began his remarks by say- 
ing: "We are all lawyers here, except the judges." Last 
summer my five-year-old, after a hard day's play, came in 
and climbed upon my lap and said : "Papa, what am I going 
tO' dO' when I get big?" I asked him. what he thought about 
it. Well, he said his older brother was going to be a carpen- 
ter; he could make things that go; "I cannot make things 
that go, and I do not think I can be a carpenter." Well, I 
asked him, "What do you think about being a lawyer?" 
"Well, I do not know," he says, "I do not like to work very 
hard, and I have not a very good remembrance ; I do not be- 
lieve I am smart enough for a lawyer, but I think I could 
make a judge." (Laughter.) 

Well, fellows, with all these discouragements, my mind 
goes back to one thing that happened in my practice 
soon after I began practicing. A woman came into the 
office, was sent by an old schoolmate of mine. She had in 
her hands a summons to appear and show cause why she 
should not be committed to a lunatic asylum. In great ex- 
citement she said, "I immediately went to the doctor. I told 
the doctor I was penniless and almost homeless; I did not 
have a friend but you and Jesus, and the doctor told me to 
come to you." (Laughter.) 



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(A voice— "Was that Kimball?") 

Shakespeare has made one of his characters say: "The 
first thing we do, let us kill all the lawyers." 

(A voice — "Good thing.") 

Now, that is an unfair libel against one-half of them; 
the other half, I might say, are guilty, and might as well 
plead guilty and take their punishment. 

I am a little cautious, however, of what I say against 
lawyers in the presence of reporters. A Democratic friend 
of mine, at one of his college dinners, soon after the subject 
of the Philippines came up, praised the action of the Presi- 
dent, and said that every loyal man would uphold his hand 
in retaining the Philippines as an American possession. 
He was thereafter nominated for 'Governor and spent his 
whole time explaining what he meant by that remark. 
(Laughter.) As long as I am coming up for the suffrages 
of my district this fall, and expect the support of lawyers, 
naturally I cannot say very much against them. But, 
fellows, there are some things about law which are, in a 
way, startling. Someone has said that the only certainty 
of the law is its uncertainty. I think that Judge Walker 
will agree with me that it is sometimes amazing how large 
a percentage of cases coming before the Court, might as 
well be decided one way as the other, depending upon what 
legal principle you most magnify. As men's minds are dif- 
ferently constituted, they will reach different conclusions 
from the same state of facts. As men are human, they will 
be influenced by their likes and by their early training. 
The man who has believed in State's rights always will 
construe strictly the Federal Constitution centralizing 
power. On the contrary, the man who has been an oppo- 
nent of State's rights will construe those provisions lib- 
erally, so that of necessity our law is uncertain in its ad- 
ministration. It always will be so. But the law, as such, 
is a good master. While there are lawyars who' dO' credit 



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to the profession, there are many of them who go into the 
law, not for the purpose of its practice, but as avenues to 
other business, and many of them are incompetent, so 
that I would not say how many millions of dollars are 
lost by their blunders. The doctor, or anyone else who de- 
ceives his clients, or misleads by his mistake, is called to 
account at the lawyer's instance, but lawyers are very chary 
about calling each other to account for blunders made. 

But, nevertheless, there is that broad field which, I will 
submit to you, is as much of an educator as any field in 
which you may go. We learn of the characteristics of 
men as you never learn of it otherwise. We see when 
they are putting on society manners, and we see them in 
their bald and naked thought — honest or dishonest, gen- 
erous or deceptive. We see all sorts of business, and in 
practicing law, in the many cases that we have, we must 
learn the different trades to an extent that itself is a breadth 
of knowledge. More than that, the lawyer is brought 
into close competition, and has his opponent there to an- 
swer him if he mis-states or mis-conceals the law. The 
doctor can do as he pleases and is not caught. The min- 
ister can say what he wants to; no one can dispute him. 
But the lawyer stands ready tO' do this duty, which neces- 
sarily leads to a greater accuracy and a greater thorough- 
ness of study and of broadening of the mind. 

And with all these things, I think I can testify that the 
lawyer learns the breadth of charity. He learns the strength 
of temptations. He learns the measure of human resist- 
ance, and in that strength of temptation and measure of 
human resistance, as he sees it, he is lenient to the faults 
of all. And I do not believe that you will find any class 
of people in the world who are more generous to the faults 
of mankind, or who have a higher ideal of the conduct of 
mankind as it should be. 

Fellows, I thank you. (Applause.) 

(Three cheers for Smith.) 



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WiivUAM E. Annin — This eulogy upon the law has been 
so generously applauded by the lawyers present (laughter) 
that I suppose there is no reason for me to say anything 
about it, especially as Judge Smith has stated that his re- 
marks were based upon the fact that he is, within a very 
short time, to appeal to the suffrage of the people for re- 
election to the office he holds. 

But philosophy rises above all personal aggrandizement. 
It has no relation to judicial districts. It does not touch 
upon a tenure upon the bench, and it is my very great 
pleasure to introduce now to those present some one whom 
they have rarely seen before, the Hon — no, Doctor Alex- 
ander Taggart Ormond, of — of Princeton, New Jersey 
(laughter), who has kindly promised to respond very 
briefly — 

(A voice— "Oh, no.") 
— to the toast of Philosophy — 

(A voice — "How much time has he got?") 
— the text being "To the ancients a pastime; to the mod- 
erns a subject of condition" (Applause), and the sentiment 
attached being 

"Though Folly marches with pedantic stride, 
The tests of Truth in Logic still reside." 

Professor Ormond will respond — if he can raise himself, 
or be raised by a derrick. 
(Three cheers for Ormond.) 

Alexander Taggard Ormond — Gentlemen, I shall not 
waste my time introducing myself, as that function has 
been so admirably performed by the Toast-Master of the 
occasion; and if the Toast-Master will just keep quiet and 
repress demonstration during the course of my remarks, I 
hope to get through in regulation time. You have all of 
you read the sentiment, perhaps with some degree of mis- 



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giving, "Philosophy^ a Pastime to the Ancients and to the 
Moderns a Subject of Condition." Now, I suppose that 
what was meant by the philosophy of the ancients was the 
time when Ben Nicoll used to come to my room the night 
before examination and tutor me up in logic. (Applause.) 
Of course, to exemplify the spirit of mutual helpfulness, 
which has always characterized the Class of 'yy, I responded 
by giving him some very important points on managing a 
boat. (Applause.) 

But, levity aside, I think the one subject which carries 
us most directly back to that man whom we all love and 
whose memory we all venerate, is the subject of philosophy, 
and I wish to speak on the subject to-night, not so much 
as tO' what philosophy itself means or signifies as to the 
associations which are connected with the subject in the 
minds of my classmates. I think we will all say without 
qualification that we consider it a privilege to have sat 
under the instruction of so great a man as Dr. McCosh; 
a man who was great in his teaching; a man who was 
greater in his personality (applause) ; a man whose teach- 
ing will survive in the spirit of it as long as true philosophy 
survives on the earth; a man whose personality, and the 
influence of whose personality will survive even longer, 
because, as some of us felt as we gathered around the grave 
of that great man and looked down upon his last remains 
as they were laid in the grave, the greatest proof, the finest 
evidence, the most indisputable demonstration of the immor- 
tality of the soul was the life of such a man as Dr. McCosh. 
(Applause.) 

I wish, in passing, to pay this tribute to the great man, 
because I think we will agree, also, that none of us have 
ever had the privilege of knowing a greater man, if we 
have ever known one as great (applause), and I would 
like to say, if Dr. Brackett were not present in this room, 
as he is, I would then like to say to my classmates that next 



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to Dr. McCosh among the men to whom we are most in- 
debted stands Dr. Brackett. (Great applause.) I would 
like to state, if Dr. Brackett were not in this room, as he 
is, that we owe to him of the essence of philosophy, be- 
cause I understand philosophy to be true thinking — a true 
method of thinking. I understand the spirit of philosophy 
to be a love of truth — 

(Williamson — ''For its own sake.") 
— and Dr. Brackett's teaching was one of the great forces 
which instilled into us love of the truth — a desire to make 
our words correspond to our thoughts and our thoughts 
correspond to the facts, so that when we spoke we would 
speak forth the convictions of honest men, of men who are 
free from prejudice, of men who are not afraid to stand 
up for the truth, for the highest truth which we know. 
I think I can say that we learned that, not only from Dr. 
McCosh, but if Dr. Brackett were not here I would say 
that we learned that lesson also from him. (Applause.) 

A word about the present philosophy, and that is a word 
which, I think, will also be of some interest to the Class 
of 'yy. One of the proudest moments in my life was that 
day out on the Mississippi river, in that Northwestern Uni- 
versity, when the summons came from Dr. McCosh to come 
home, and to take the central place which he was kind and 
good enough to give me in the new school of philosophy 
then being established. 

(A voice — "He was right.") 

That was the happiest day of my life, and I can say this 
that since that time up to this time the Class of '^jj has 
been represented in every step which has been taken in the 
Department of Philosophy in this university; that the Class 
of 'yy has energized in the very heart of the Department 
of Philosophy, and that one thing which I will say, as an 
example, one of the greatest movements in advance which 
the Philosophic Department, or which the University has 



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taken in the last few years, was the organization of the 
Seminars of the University, some of whom have made such 
magnificent records in the last two or three years, and 
that the veteran seminar of this University was the sem- 
inar established by ^y^j in Philosophy^ — a seminar which 
has now entered on its tenth year ; a seminar which has rep- 
resentatives in the faculties of a dozen institutions, and a 
seminar whose work was one of the great stimulating 
causes of that great step in organization of which we are 
so proud. That, gentlemen, is a phase in the history of phil- 
osophy of this institution in which the Class of 'y"] may 
well be interested, and I hope that the work has been done 
in that thorough and conscientious way, that will commend 
it to the better judgment of the members of our Class. 

So much for the present. I have not time to point out 
the great differentiation of subjects which has taken place 
in the philosophical work of the University, the number of 
men who have been brought in, the development of the 
courses of study, the organization of the higher work lead- 
ing tO' the higher degrees. I have simply time to refer to 
them. 

But I want to^ say something about the future. This 
Class is a class which has been specially interested, and 
rightly so, in a practical way, in the biological sciences. I 
want to say that the biological sciences and philosophy lie 
close together. They are twin sisters. (Applause.) And 
as one prospers, so the other prospers. As the biologist 
develops a true science of biology ; sO' the science, the results 
of the science become correlative with a true development 
of philosophy. Philosophy seeks the unification of knowl- 
edge, and the truer knowledge is, the nearer it goes to the 
foundation of things ; the more fundamental its concepts are, 
the more easily and the more truly they fit into a unified 
scheme of knowledge, and into a unified interpretation of 
the universe. 



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We have heard here this evening — and this is going 
somewhat off the subject, but not very far, because it lies 
close to the vital interests of the University — the great 
event whicH has taken place to-day in our midst — an event 
for which some of us were partly prepared, but which has 
surprised us, whach has astonished us, and which has thrown 
us into a position where we are scarcely capable of pro- 
nouncing an opinion — ^*The King is dead," the announce- 
ment comes; 'Xong live the King." (Applause.) And I 
will say long live the King, because Woodrow Wilson is a 
King of men. (Applause.) And as it is said he was chosen 
unanimously, I know the Class of 'yj would have been 
unanimous in choosing Woodrow Wilson as the one man 
who is qualified, and who has been set apart by a divine 
Providence — because, like Mr. Alexander, I believe in a 
divine Providence, and I hope you all do — for the position 
to which he has been chosen. 

But I want to pay a tribute to the King that is dead. 
(Hear, hear, hear.) The King is dead ; a King has dropped 
dead, yet the King lives. One of the proudest friendships 
of my life, one of the proudest things I have to think of, 
is my association for so many years with Doctor Patton, 
as President of this institution. Dr. Patton is a lovely char- 
acter — a man of genius, and those who- get to know him 
intimately can scarce find words to express their love and 
admiration for him. And it is a proud thing for me to look 
forward to his continuance in our faculty, as a worker side 
by side with myself, and it is, more than all, a proud thing 
for me to look forward to his continuance in the faculty as 
a colleague with myself in the great work of building up 
the Department of Philosophy. I think that we cannot 
speak in too eulogistic terms of the King that is dead, and 
the King that yet lives and shall live. 

And I wish to say two or three things more, and that 
sentiment comes out of my connection with my own Class. 



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It has been my privilege to attend all the reunions of our 
Class, and I have regarded it as one of the greatest privi- 
leges O'f my life. I think every man who attends one of 
these reunions will say that it marks an epoch in his life, 
and that his life is richer and better, and that his life will be 
nobler for the great stimulus of association and friendship 
which he gets by returning to these occasions. 

This is our twenty-fifth anniversary. We have been 
twenty-five years in the field. We are in the thick oi the 
fight. We are in the middle of life. We are matured men. 
Most of us, I am proud to say, have succeeded in the battle 
and are succeeding. We are not putting forth the note of 
failure. The Class of 'yy knows nO' such word as failure. 
(Applause.) We are like soldiers who' are marching for- 
ward to victory, with the high hopes and aspirations and 
ideals of youth. That is what we are. And we look for- 
ward toi the future, and we are glad that our University is 
entering on such a grand future, and that it is such a great 
privilege for us tO' live in this age of ours, to look forward 
to the splendid events with which we expect tO' identify our- 
selves in the near future. It is not ours tO' sing the Morituri 
Salutamus. Let us lay that song aside until our fiftieth 
anniversary. Then when we come together, when w'e are 
old gray-haired octogenarians, we have a right tO' look back 
on the work that we have done, and that which we have 
completed. But now we look forward toi that time, and I 
hope toi meet my fellow-classmates, on that eightieth — that 
fiftieth anniversary. I hope to meet my class-mates as octo- 
genarians. I hope tO' look back tO' a life well spent, to a 
battle well fought, and I hope to^ be able to look forward to 
a perfect faith in an immortality beyond the grave, because 
I hope that every '77 man will be a man of faith, that he 
will believe in the immortality of the sonl and of God, and 
that we shall have another reunion on that further shore. 



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where, when the roll is called, not a single name, not a single 
member of the Class will fail to respond. (Applause.) 
(Three cheers for Senator Ormond.) 

WiixiAM E. Annin — Miembers of the Class of 'yj, I 
have waited until the burst of admiration for this very 
extraordinary, and admirable speech of Senator Ormond 
had passed, before I took up the next person upon the regular 
lists of toasts. I do not think there was anything in Senator 
Oirmond's speech that touched tis more than his eulogy upon 
Dr. McCosh, except his statement that he hoped when the 
eightieth anniversary of the Class came, the rest of us could 
look back upon his life as one well spent. (Laughter.) In 
the olden times we expected that sort of thing of Professors 
of Princeton, a tenure of eighty years, but under the modern 
conditions, of course, there might be some question, and 
with the eightieth anniversary of the Class we might have 
to keep tabs upon those who^ remain. I do not think there 
will be very many of them there at the time tO' check up, 
but I know that we all hope that the dear old Senator will 
be present upon that occasion to make another speech, even 
if it is only half as good as the one he has made just now. 

At one time in his kaleidoscopic career Professor Ormond 
was Professor in a Western University. A large portion of 
his experience, added to the knowledge which he acquired 
here, was gained in Minneapolis, a, portion of the far West. 
I never gO' there without having people ask me about Sen- 
ator Ormund — students, and tailors, and grocers, and other 
people (laughter) in Minneapolis inquire after Senator 
Oirmund with careful solicitude. I am always inclined to 
give them his address, tell them I think he is at Tubingen or 
Heidelberg or Gottingen, or some other place where philos- 
ophy is studied and where concepts are conceived. (Ap- 
plause.) 



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But, in the words of Mr. Alexander, James W. Alex- 
ander, one of the greatest advisers of people in the United 
States, "we have with us here this evening" James F. 
Williamson, Ph.D., from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and who 
knew Senator Ormond while he was there, who' has con- 
sented to respond to the toast of "The Great West," the 
sentiment being "A Home of Strong Men and Good 
Women, destined by Providence to dominate the World," 
with a little couplet, 

"If western men had chldren by the score, 
Incumbent fate would only call for more." 

(Applause.) 

I do not want to^ discuss the Malthusian theory of life, 
and I know nothing about the size of Mr. Williamson's 
family. I know, however, that Billy Williamson is one of 
the best men of the Class of 'yy, and who went out West — 

(A voice : "Billy is all right.") 
— who has cast glory upon the Class by real good, honest, 
hard work, and that the success which always comes for 
real good, hard work has come to him. And I know of no 
one who can respond better toi the toast of "The Great 
West" than Billy Williamson, who' pulled hard in the crew 
while he was here, and who has pulled hard and won ever 
since. (Applause.) 

(Three cheers for Williamson.) 

Jamks F. Williamson — Mr. Chairman and Fellow- 
Classmates : I have been so much impressed with the 
splendid developments of Princeton, and have so' greatly 
enjoyed this reunion that it is very difficult for me tO' turn 
my mind from this good fellowship to another subject. I 
suppose this subject was assigned on the theory that a man 
from the prairies of the far West required a large amount 
of roo'm to knock around in. It would be very easy to 
magnify the section. From the pathfinders, like Boone and 



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Clark, to the modem giants, the industrial captains of 
to-day, seems but a span. But where doi they come from, 
these giants that blaze the way ? They come from the West, 
or from the South or from the Easterners who' are imbued 
with the spirit of the West and of the South. Det Bret 
Harte, and Mark Twain, whose wisdom is not less than their 
humor is pervasive, let men like that stand for what has 
been done in the field of literature — M'ark Twain, the 
greatest man, to my mind, that America has produced in the 
field of literature, from the standpoint of humor and from 
the standpoint of wisdom. Look to^ the field of the Cap- 
tains of industry. Whom shall we name — whom shall we 
not name that has transformed this country and bound it 
with the iron bands of the rail, and made us all but thrill 
with the electric impulse, but the giants who have come 
from the West. I^ook at a man like James J. Hill, a man 
who rose from the level of a St. Paul baggage smasher, 
until he plays with railroad presidents and with the mag- 
nates of Wall Street, like pawns in his gigantic game of 
railway chess, a man whoi has got the imagination of a poet 
or a mathematician or a great scientist or a great philoso- 
pher. For he is the seer of the West, as he is the greatest 
practical railroader this country has ever seen. I do^ not 
agree with all his policies and all his plans, but there is a 
sample of what the West can do. And we are furnishing 
yon with your superintendents, and your presidents of rail- 
ways, and your managers and captains of industry. And, 
for example, look what Yerkes is teaching the English. 
He owns the underground section of London, and he is 
teaching the modern British the meaning of the word elec- 
tricity. I do not know that he would be admitted to your 
University Club in New York City, but there he is, doing 
the fighting, and a man whom the world sees, and who 
accomplishes things. 



But, fellows, I do not propose to take your time — we 
not only have those men who' have attained this great 
eminence in all the different fields of human endeavor, but, 
of course, we have got the picturesque. We furnished you 
your Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show, and Carrie 
Nation with her hatchet. Billy Annin knows her better ; he 
has been closer to her than I. (Laughter.) I have lived 
long enough in the world, and seen enough of men to know 
that there is neither east nor west, nor north nor south. 
(Applause.) We find that the rising sun follows the set- 
ting sun, and that while we look to- the west here, which is, 
we will say, west of the Ohio, west of the Missouri, west 
of the Rocky Mountains, west of the Pacific, that the occi- 
dental looks on in the same direction, and what is his west is 
our east, and what is our east is his west, and they meet, and 
the rainbow should shine over all, because the Jap has stood 
with his eyes towards the west long enough until the slant 
is nearly gone, and he is nearest abreast of the modern times ; 
and the Chinaman has had his face set in the right direction, 
and give him time, and he will come our way. (Applause.) 

But, fellows, I doi not get with you very often, but 
I say that, in this line of thought, to me there is neither 
east nor west, nor north nor south, when intelligent men get 
together; and I want to say tO' you that we of the west 
believe that actions speak louder than words, but we know 
that action follows thought as night follows day. And I 
want to say to you there is one of the westerners, Schwab 
to the contrary notwithstanding, tO' stand here to believe and 
adovcate an educated man. I have met enough business men 
in my short life tO' know the difference between a man who 
has had the cobweb wiped out of his head, and the man that 
never knew what a cobweb was. I want to tell you that 
you can go to New York or Philadelphia, or Minneapolis, 
or anywhere else, and find that it takes a pick or dynamite 
to open up their minds so they will understand an idea; 



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and you may find men again who have had what I call a 
cleaning up, where they have a mobilized brain, and one 
word is sufficient. What is an explanation? A thing is 
explained when you bring it down to the understanding of 
your hearer, and, if you are talking toi experts, one word is 
enough ; if you are talking tO' an ignoramus, you can never 
make it plain. And it is marvelous to me how some of these 
men of business have ever accomplished the wonders that 
they have in the way of acquiring money, wealth, position 
and all that. But I want toi say this, that if you come up, in 
the field of business or in the field of any endeavor what- 
soever, with a man who has been a real student, who has 
had his mind mobilized, as I say, who has had the cobwebs 
washed or brushed away, or dug away, or driven away with 
dynamite, I do' not care, if it has got away, you can gO' to 
him and he will understand you, and he will understand you 
mighty quick, and you will get your results, and it is a great 
satisfaction. And, hence, I say, I stand here as the advocate 
of the educated man. I do not care where he gets it, 
whether he gets it in one of the grand old colleges, or by 
wide reading, or intimate contact with men, or whether by 
going out and studying the works of nature and the fields 
and the flowers and the rivers and the clouds — I do' not care, 
so he gets it ; and if he has only got it, then he has got home 
close to the heart of things. 

And I want to add more, because I do not often get with 
you. But after all I want to say this, that I honor most of 
all the men who^ work in the laboratories, to hunt up the 
new discoveries and the new principles, which make it pos- 
sible for the practical fellows to come along, even if they 
do make millions out of it. I was amused, I took a ride 
down Germantown road from your house (turning to Van 
Dusen) the other day, and the conductor of the car was 
pointing out to me miles of Philadelphia, and he says, "Why, 



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this is wonderful how civiHzation follows electricity." The 
conductor told me that. 

(A voice — "Even in Philadelphia.") 

Even in Philadelphia. But I sat there, and I thought of 
our magnificent Henry — with a big magnet, and the tele- 
phone, before anybody else had it, and the electric telegraph, 
and all that, and the wonderful development which this man 
made in the way of discoveries which made Morse and the 
Universal Telegraph whereby we read every morning the 
thoughts of the whole world, until we become practically 
one nerve center. That is what we are, one nerve center. 
The world is before us at the breakfast table, and we are 
one people, one people the whole world over. Therefore I 
say, abandon your sections. We are one people, and we in- 
habit the world. Therefore we must dominate it, q. e. d. 
Have I demonstrated my text? 

(A voice — ''That is a question.") 

Very well. I want to say one word more, and that is, 
that the one thing to my mind that keeps all minds true, 
the sheet anchor to every man's life, in my mind, is the love 
of knowledge for its own sake. 

The man who has got far enough in the development of 
his mind and the knowledge of human affairs to know that 
he must follow the light, let it lead where it may — I tie to 
that man through thick and thin. I do not care who your 
preachers are, I do not care who are your business men; 
to me bigger than many of the men, who' have the most light 
is the man who' follows the truth, lead where it will ; that is 
a man I want to listen to, and tie tO' through thick and 
through thin. 

I want to do something more, and that is this — you call 
me from the west and you give me license — the danger of 
the west and every other section is that we may, in our great 
institution, become too much bread and butter making ma- 
chines. We are apt to take up special technical courses, and 



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try to equip our young men for special lines, so that they 
can go out and make their bread and butter. (Yea, yea.) 
They can some of them do it, some do not do it. They go 
out with big hopes. In the words of Horace Greely, "Of 
all horned cattle, save me 'from the average college gradu- 
ate," or words to that effect. 

What I want to say is this, that I am a believer in general 
culture. I am a believer in the general foundations which 
are laid in our institutions like this, where you cultivate the 
humanities, where you get at philosophy, where you get at 
logic, where you get at the elementary studies, and then 
where you ground your technical on top of your funda- 
mentals, and let a man come up against it, and then you get 
a man ; and if a man has not got the fundamentals, he has 
not got his head clear until he knows something about phil- 
osophy in the proper sense. For what is it? Nothing but 
a correlation of fundamentals. 

That is all there is tO' it ; and the man that correlates one 
kind can only take the facts before him at that time; and 
he nO' sooner has them^ correlated than the toilers in the in- 
dividual fields have developed soi many new facts, that have 
to be correlated again; and along comes your next 
philosopher. Hence, philosophy is a continuous growth, 
and will be as long as men inhabit the world — bound tO' be. 
Hence, I say, I glory in Princeton, I glory in Yale, I glory 
in any old college that has got the sense to stand for the 
fundamentals, and tell those fellows with money tO' add their 
technical institutions, and their technical training on top of 
that afterwards. I want to see this college stand by that 
policy. If I never say another word, I want that tO' be my 
message from, the west. My field is the useful arts. I come 
in contact with all classes, from the humblest tO' the richest, 
in all sections of this country, but I say to you, that of all 
things I ever met, I believe most in the fundamental train- 

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ing that you get at a place like this, and I want to see it cul- 
tivated clear through to the end. 

I have learned this, moreover, that out of it all comes 
tolerance — out of it all comes a kindly regard for every 
other human being. We come intO' the world naked, and 
we go out of it naked, because we should all have equal 
opportunity. I have learned that bigness of heart and big- 
ness of brain knows neither time, nor locality, nor bloody 
and we should act upon it. 

(Three cheers for Williamson.) 

Wii^iviAM E. Annin, Toastmaster^ — I have always felt 
that when Mr. Roosevelt remarked the great west was 
strenuous, he was correct. (I^aughter.) 

(A voice^ — "Just what Carrie Nation did.") 

I have lived in the great west myself for a number of 
years, and, when I got out west again, they said : "Well, if 
you had only been here a little while, you would know 
something about this thing. '^ And when I come back here 
they say : "You have been sO' long out west, if you had only 
lived east awhile, you would know something about it." 

I have listened to this eulogy upon Jim Hill, whom I do 
not know, but whom I would like toi know, if he has possibly 
been of as much advantage as probably he has been, to a 
friend of mine who has spoken about the great west. 
(Laughter.) But the great west is a matter of the present. 
"Forgetting that which is behind, we press forward tO' the 
mark of our high calling," etc., as the old version of the 
Bible has it, we have something which is perhaps of quite 
as much importance to dispose of now, which is "The 
Future," something which is well known by my friends of 
Wall Street, but not entirely familiar to myself. "Gracious, 
rich in promise, and certain in results." That is what every 
bucket-shop says. (Applause.) This is tO' be responded toi 
by Henry Fairfield Osborn — LL.D — to get, is it not? — of 
New York City, the sentiment being : 



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"Though Satan smiled at Father Adam's fall, . 
We knew that man would surely conquer all." 

Osborn was known to us some years ago, when he was 
connected with a first-class institution. (Applause.) Sub- 
sequently, on account of the drainage in Princeton, he moved 
to New York, and is now connected with an institution 
whose name I have forgotten. (Applause.) I do* not know 
to what this sentiment of the future refers — to his future, to 
our future, to New York's future of the institution to which 
I understand he belongs ; but we will be glad to hear from 
him on any of those topics. (Applause.) 

(Three cheers for Harry Osborn.) 

Henry FairfikIvD Osborn — Fellow Class-mates: I am 
like the previous speakers, I have very little idea what I 
am going to say. I rise, trusting to the inspiration of the 
moment, which they say is a very dangerous inspiration — 
and the last inspiration I got is from my dear and hon- 
ored class-mate, Williamson, so I may just add a sort of 
appendix^ — not a vermiform appendix — ^to what he said 
about the dangers of a certain type of western education. 
At the inauguration of a certain President in an institution 
unknown to my friend, Annin, after hearing from various 
institutions of learning, such as Princeton, Yale, Harvard, 
we heard from the President of the University of Chicago, 
and he spoke somewhat to this effect : "Gentlemen, we are 
just five years old" — read between the lines, John A. Rocke- 
feller gave us ten millions — "we have two hundred profes- 
sors, two thousand students; we made that in five years; 
just make your own calculation, in five more years we shall 
have four hundred professors, four thousand students, and 
it will take three hundred trolley cars to take the students 
out to the University every day." The whole idea of the 
University, so far as Mr. Harper presented it to us, was a 
quantitative idea; it was the idea of mass; the idea of 



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numerical value ; and as I understand the latter part of the 
speech of my friend, Williamson, his was the idea of the 
value of thought — 

(Williamson— "That is it") 
— as opposed to mass. And such movement of thought 
cannot be measured like the movement of a comet ; it is not 
a movement of mass, something quite different. It belongs 
to a different sphere. And if there is any danger in the rapid 
growth of these Universities which spring' up like mush- 
rooms over night, so^ tO' speak, and their foundations, at 
least, overshadow the humble endowments of the college 
that we are proud to belong to, it is too great reliance on 
millions, too great reliance on what may be accomplished 
by technique, by large numbers of students. Because after 
all it is the ideas, it is the sentiments, it is the philosophy; 
and, as we have had a splendid illustration to-day, it is the 
heart which pervades the University that makes the Uni- 
versity great. 

Now, this University has gone through a revolution, a 
revolution so great, that I confess, not having the slightest 
suspicion of it beforehand, I did not know whether tO' laugh 
or tO' cry, when Momo Pyne came out and said: "Harry, 
have you heard the news?" I said: "I have not heard any 
particular news." "Why," he said, "President Patton has 
resigned, and Woodrow Wilson has been elected President." 
That such a change could have taken place as that with- 
out any newspaper discussion, without any acrimonious 
criticism, in all goodness of heart, and, as we learned later, 
Francis Patton nominating his successor, things done all 
by unanimous action of the Board, it seems to me that is 
something toi praise God for. (Yea, yea, yea.) I be- 
lieve in Providence, in the sayings of my friend, Bayard 
Henry, in some days of darkness, he said, "Now, Harry, 
this is God's College, and He will look after it." If I had my 
doubts sometimes in regard tO' whether matters were going 



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on in the right way, they were all removed when I 
heard that that great revolution had taken place, and that 
we had an entirely peaceable change, which will go out to 
the world as having been accomplished very largely by the 
initiative of Dr. Patton himself. (Applause.) I do' not 
think that that change would have taken place in any insti- 
tution over which President Harper presided. I think the 
entire west would have resounded with criticisms, perhaps 
of his administration. There has never been a criticism of 
President Patton' s administration going out to the world. 
Princeton men have stood by him loyally, and they stand by 
him now, and they honor and love him all the more for the 
noble resignation of office, for the magnanimous way in 
which he has surrendered the keys of this splendid 
University to another man. And, therefore, it seems that 
after all it is not the mere mass, it is the ideals — 

(Williamson— ''That is it.") 
— it is the sentiments, it is the brotherly love which per- 
meates an institution, and which we have to be thankful that 
we have here in superabundant measure. 

Now, the mottO' of our Class was "Panta Kinomen 
Petron." We have always laughed at that motto, and it has 
been paraphrased by such a learned and godless man as 
Billy Dunning. That has been the motto of our Class ; and 
some part of our success, the great keynote of movement 
in this world is to turn over a stone and see what is under 
it — what we can do. In other w^ords, education stands for 
a great many different things; but the keystone of educa- 
tion is construction, is to build up, is tO' build something 
new, and that has been the spirit of 1877. (Applause.) 

We have stood by the cement of the Class, and that cement 
is John A. Campbell. (Applause.) 

(A voice — ''He is a pretty live sort of cement.") 

He has been our cement; and the mottO' of our Class is 
to leave no stone unturned, but to build, in everything we 



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are engaged to build, for truth, to build for science, to build 
in politics, tO' build in literature, to- build in philosophy, and 
to build especially for old Princeton. 

Therefore, it seems to me I really have a cinch to-night 
for the easiest toast of the evening. These other fellows 
have had tO' hunt back in the chambers of their memories 
for achievements. All I have to say is : "Fellows, go on 
building; go on, goi on twenty-five years more as you have 
done in the past twenty-five years. John, go on building 
up the Class ; Jai, go on sending out your bulletins until 
the man says, 'Well, by Jove, I will go tO' that meeting, in 
order to- avoid getting any further notices from Jai Camp- 
bell.' " (Great applause.) 

Construction is the idea — building up, not tearing down. 
That is the great secret of human progress. Go on build- 
ing up politics, Harry Thompson and Biggs ; keep men like 
Addicks out of the United States Senate. That is a thing 
that only very few of you know, probably, that members of 
the Class '"jj sat up night after night with the Delaware 
Legislature and kept the United States Senate pure from 
pollution by men of the Addicks type. 

("Good, good, good.") 

Go on, fellow-classmates, who are in the law. Walter 
Smith, build up the law, and Walker, a name we are proud 
of, build up the great fabric of the law, founded on prin- 
ciples that Walter Smith gave us in the end of his speech. 
Those are the true Princeton principles, which Princeton 
men carry out intO' their various professions. And in 
science, Scott, go on building up the great fabric of paleon- 
tology, the history of the past. We all tease you about your 
past. Fossils are the synonyms of dryness, but we know 
that you are engaged in constructive work ; you are adding 
to the sum of the world's knowledge. That is what we may 
run you about, we may. chaff you about, but that is what 
we go into North College for, and there is where we are 



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proud that the Class of '"jy started the first expedition to 
the west, which has been the fruitful source of expeditions 
of geology and paleontology in all the world. As I look 
around, it is impossible to pick out all the constructive work 
that has been done by various members of this Class, but 
that has been the key-note. Slemmons, go on — Slemmons, 
Merle Smith, Jacobus, go^ on working for righteousness^ — 

(A voice — "What is the matter with Laughlin?") 

(A voice — "Or Jenkins?") 

(A voice— "Or Fred Campbell.") 

We need you. The great danger of America now, I sup- 
pose, is that, owing to the upsetting of our old religious 
ideas, due to the real constructive work of Darwin and 
Huxley, the great pioneers — upsetting the idea of special 
creation and substituting the idea of evolution, now that we 
are in the ferment of reconstructing all our theology — go 
on, you teachers of the truth ; adopt these new ideas where 
they are proven and maintain righteousness. 

(A voice — "Look out, you will get into trouble with Bay- 
ard Henry.") 

I will attend to Bayard after while. And sO' it is we come 
to the great work in education, that many members of the 
Class are carrying on in the colleges and schools of the 
country. Be proud of the work that the man is doing in 
the public schools, as well as the work that the man is do- 
ing in the college, because there is where the first steps in 
education tell. And when we come around to the great final 
subject of philosophy, I tell you, fellows, that when you lis- 
tened to Ormond to-night you listened to one of the most 
profound thinkers in America. (Applause.) Really, it is a 
joke — it is a positive joke that I helped Ormond through 
his freshman and sophomore year in Latin and Greek, but 
when he struck his pace in the junior and senior years, and 
he got with a man of mind, into the fellowship of a mind 
like Dr. McCosh, then he began to show his quality. Now, 



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it is a great thing that we can number on our rolls a man 
who is universally acknowledged — acknowledged in all the 
institutions of this country, as a great philosopher. And I 
say that a philosopher in these days is a very rare bird; it 
is a hard thing to produce, because you remember we passed 
out of the old philosophy — the old dogmatic philosophy — 
and we passed into the philosophy where the truths of phil- 
osophy have to be adjusted, or rather, where the discoveries 
of science have to be appreciated, because now in this 
century, the twentieth, in which we are entering, great 
truths of nature are changing our old standards, and one 
of the men universally acknowledged as the leader in that 
adjustment is Alexander Taggart Ormond. (Applause.) 

'77 is the greatest Class that has ever been. But every- 
thing did not begin with our Class; there is that old voice 
crying in the wilderness, that can live on locusts and wild 
honey, James W. Alexander, of the Class of '70, and that 
man we used to marvel about. Bayard Henry — eh. Bayard? 
— a member of the Board of Trustees, whose model has 
been to build — keep up building, building up this institu- 
tion. Keep it up, abreast of the times. And that is the 
spirit of our Class, it is the spirit of Princeton. Boys, we 
must never forget, it is the most important thing, that edu- 
cation is a very complex matter, and consists, as I conceive 
it, of at least seven great elements: First, the ©lement of 
truth. That is largely cultivated by the study of religion 
and morals. With that, the element of beauty. Then there is 
the element of knowledge, the acquisition of all that the past 
has to tell us. Then there is the use of our wonderful, God- 
given faculty of observation as the means oif gathering unto 
ourselves truth first-hand. Then come the powers of reason 
on facts which have been accumulated in the past, and which 
we have accumulated by our own powers. Then comes the 
power of expression, which we have had so splendidly illus- 
trated by some of the men that have spoken to-night. And 



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that is the first generous element in education ; it is the power 
which enables us to give out to others that which we have 
retained, which is the large part of the University to culti- 
vate. But the very acme of education is the power of pro- 
duction, of creation, to add to the sum of the world's knowl- 
edge, and building up institutions. And that brings me 
around to the last word I have to say, and that is that we 
have in ^yy a man who quite unconsciously has been in- 
spired with the spirit of 'yy, and that is Momo Taylor 
Pyne — 

(Williamson — "I propose three cheers for Pyne.") 
(Three rousing cheers were given for Pyne.) 
Class-mates : Pyne is a builder, if ever there was a builder ; 
he is a man whose motto from morning to night is to build 
up; and Pyne and Ormond are the men who deserve, it 
seems to me, our chief thanks and praise to-night. They 
are the men who are building up the new Princeton, so that 
in the future, which is the subject of our toast — under the 
guidance of a man, Woodrow Wilson — what a man, and 
what a Princeton man — 

(A voice — "Trained by Jimmie.") 
— trained by Jimmie — what a Princeton man, a man repre- 
sentative of that boundary line between the north and south, 
which historically, is Princeton, a combination of great 
warmth and sentiment and the color of the South, with those 
particular qualities of mind and of intellect which are pecu- 
liar to the North, and they all conjoined in Woodrow Wilson. 
So we say to those men who are engaged in building up the 
new Princeton, especially to those 'yy men, go on, build up 
Princeton; you have chosen a great leader, and we look 
forward to the future and to the thirtieth meeting of the 
Class as even greater than this. (Applause.) 

WiiviviAM E. Annin — The night is getting old. 
(A voice — "But we are young.") 



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The speeches are longer than we expected. The future, 
as Dr. Oshorn has said, will probably take care of itself. 
"The past is secure." Yet it seems necessary that some- 
thing should be said about the past, and, therefore, the Com- 
mittee has called upon the Hon. John Biggs, of Wilmington, 
Delaware, for a few remarks upon that subject, and he has 
kindly consented, after much deliberation, tO' respond to 
'^The Past, a time when we were ourselves: now, possibly 
wiser" — we are not expected tO' be at twelve o'clock at 
night, but we shall possibly be wisier to-moirrow — ^"we 
lovingly and in our prime salute." 

"If bowed with care you seek this hallowed place, 
Vanished is care and years have left no trace." 

At the last meeting of the Class Mr. Biggs was called 
upon, and a hand organ, run by an Italian who did not 
understand English, stopped the Hon. John Biggs just as 
he was explaining the peculiar franchise laws of the State of 
Delaware, and the Hon. John Biggs was quite content tO' 
sit down. But he sent word to Mr. Speir a few weeks ago 
that it would be a great pleasure to him to respond to the 
toast of his past, which, he said, was rather a variegated 
one, but which might be of interest to his classmates. I 
therefore call upon Biggs to make a few remarks upon this 
toast. 

(Three cheers for John Biggs.) 

John Biggs — Mr. Chairman : When I received the very 
kind invitation of this Committee to respond to this toast, 
I at once replied that, owing to other engagements, it would 
be impossible for me to do soi; and, therefore, I did not 
expect to be called upon this evening. But, inasmuch as I 
would not undertake or think of undertaking to respond 
extemporaneously to so important a toast, and inasmuch as 
we have with us a gentleman who is fully qualified to speak 
at any time, on any subject, anywhere, and a gentleman 



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whom most of you have never heard before, I call upon our 
distinguished Toastmaster to respond to this toast. 

WiiviviAM E. Annin — Fellows, I desire to state that I 
have no intention at this time to speak upon my past. I 
shall, therefore, leave it to some one else, although not a 
member of the Class of 'yy — my brother — to say something 
about his past. 

(Calls for Bob Annin, and three cheers for the "adopted 
son.") 

(A voice^ — "Tell us something about Billy, too.") 

Robert E. Annin — Gentlemen, I assure you that this 
surprise is as painful to me as it can possibly be to you ; but 
I will ameliorate your sufferings by assuring you that I at 
least will not start out, as so many others have done, by a 
eulogy on Dr. Patton, and wind up by saying that his resig- 
nation has restored my belief in a Divine Providence. 
(Laughter.) 

Standing, as I do, known only as the brother of William 
Annin, lightened only by the effulgence which radiates from 
the prismatic mentality of the original and only Annin, 
William the Silent (applause), no attitude to me is possible 
but that of humility. Having experienced for the third time 
the hospitality and the society of the members of the Class 
of 'yy, no sentiment is possible to me but that of gratitude. 
If there is any man who can associate with the members of 
the Class of '"jy and not find his heart and his lips expressing 
his appreciation, history has failed to record his name. 

Now, we are informed by Mr. Slemmons that all the re- 
spondents this evening were notified a week before-hand by 
Speir, and I beg to assure you that I was only notified an 
hour ago that I would be expected to say anything, when 
my brother said to me : "Biggs has been chosen to respond 
to the toast of ^The Past,' and when this was communicated 
to him he only remarked *God forbid.' " And I said to him : 



6o 

"Well, William, you know that my own past is no 
geranium" (laughter), but he said: ''Compared with Biggs', 
it is nothing ; go ahead, and they will be so grateful for their 
escape they will not think anything about you." (I^aughter.) 

Now, gentlemen, this calling upon me at this time of the 
evening, when everybody is tired with the very long speeches 
to which we have listened, is an outrage calculated to enlist 
the sympathies and evoke the convulsive activities of the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. 1 ic- 
member, when I was a little dirty-faced boy, I used to sit on 
the fences and watch the ball matches, and my highest am- 
bition was to swear and spit through my teeth like Dave 
Laughlin, and when, five years ago, in this very room, in 
running over the records of the mortality of the Class, 
somebody said that Dave Laughlin had gone to his long 
home, I felt a; sense of personal loss, which was not war- 
ranted by my intimate acquaintance with that gentleman; 
but when I saw him flash up at this re-union, weighing 200 
pounds and measuring four feet across the shoulder, I was 
reminded of the spiritualistic seance at Hannibal, Missouri, 
where a countryman was called upon to call up the spirit of 
one of his friends, and he called up the spirit of a man 
named Lije, who was about six feet four inches and the 
wag of the town, and who had died a year before. And he 
said : "Is this you, I^ije?" And Lije said : "Yes, this is me." 
"Well," he said, "Lije, are you happy?" And he said: 
"Oh, yes, I am happy." "Well," he said, "Lije, are you in 
Heaven?" He says: "Yes, that is where I am." "Well,'' 
he said, "Lije, are you an angel?" He says: "Yes, that is 
what I am." Well, he felt he had not many subjects in 
common with an angel, and the conversation threatened to 
drop right there, but finally he braced up and said : "Lije, 
what do you measure from tip to tip ?" 

(Laughter and applause.) 

This is not strictly germane, but it reminds me of another 
spiritualistic story of the wife of the English costermonger. 



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who went to a seance and called up the spirit of her hus- 
band, and she said : "Is that you, 'Arry ?" He says : ''Yes, 
it is me." "Does you know the lidy that is talking to you ?" 
He says: "Yes, it is you, 'Arriet." "That's right, 'Arry; 
are you 'appy?" He says: "Oh, yes, 'Arriet, I am 'appy." 
"Are you 'appier, 'Arry, than you were when you was with 
me ?" "Oh, yes, I am ; I am a 'eap 'appier." And she says : 
"And where are you, 'Arry ?" And he replied : " 'Arriet, I 
am in 'ell." (Laughter.) 

Now, gentlemen, to lay aside seriousness for a moment — 
everybody seems to do that — 

(A voice — "For a moment?") 
— the thought that comes to me and has been coming to 
me for the last five years, as I have come back to Princeton, 
is that our college generation — the generation of the 70' s 
and 80' s — can no longer comfort ourselves with the thought 
that the game is still young. 
(A voice— "That is right.") 

Those of us who have already achieved something can 
congratulate themselves, but those of us who have not, must 
realize that it is up to us; and nothing brings it home to 
us more than such an incident as occurred in Princeton 
to-day in the election of Woodrow Wilson, of the Class of 
'79, as President of the University. And as you look over 
the men who are filling the high offices in state and in edu- 
cational institutions to-day, we see there is Roosevelt of '80, 
President of the United States; there is Hadley, of 'y6, 
President of Yale; there is Butler, of '82, President of 
Columbia; Wilson, of '79, President of Princeton Univer- 
sity; and as we look upon our own men who have been 
doing things for the University, there is Pyne, of 'yy, as 
Trustee. 

The men who are doing things are men of our genera- 
tion ; and the great thing I think that 'yy and the spirit of 
'yy which emanated from James McCosh — 



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(A voice — "Right you are.") 
— has done for Princeton University, is to give us all an 
unselfish loyalty which is apart from and separated from 
the selfish interest of our lives, so that we are able to look 
with a disinterested eye and a disinterested loyalty upon 
what is being done for Princeton, what is being done for 
future generations, something that will outlive us and that 
we are in a position to answer — ^we who love Princeton and 
who look to her present and her future — we are able to 
answer in the negative the great question which Lowell puts 
in his Commemoration Ode : 

"Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides 

Into the silent hollow of the past; 
What is there that abides 
To make the next age better for the last? 

Is earth too poor to give us 

Something to live for here that shall outlive us? 

Some more substantial boon. 

Than such as flows and ebbs with Fortune's fickle moon?" 

(Applause.) 

W11.1.IAM E. Annin — I think Biggs would have done 
better than that, if he had only had his gait on; but then 
the speaker did pretty well for a young fellow ; and as we 
are rapidly approaching that part of the evening when the 
impromptu toasts will begin, I desire to call upon the Rev. 
Wilton Merle Smith — with a lot of alphabets to his name 
here — of New York City, who will respond to "The Prince- 
ton Spirit — to stand together, man by man, unmoved by 
failure, and sure of final success." Who ever heard of that 
failure? Mr. Smith used to be pitcher of the University 
Team, and that has been his largest distinction since, with 
the exception that he occasionally makes a very good speech 
at commencements. 

(Three cheers for Billy Smith.) 



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WII.TON Mi^RLE Smith — There is a play running in New 
York, called "Too Much Johnson." I have been a little 
afraid, when you called an Walter to-night that there would 
be too much Smith; but, as we have had a two-fold dose 
from the incomparable Annins, I trust you are ready for a 
two-fold dose from the other kind of Smith. 

(A voice — "We are.") 

It has been my misfortune to have been linked in the 
mysteries of birth with another. You know Kimball said 
in his history that he thanked God that they had no Smiths 
at least for one year of their course. We did not enter until 
sophomore year ; and in the freshman year I have no doubt 
you were thajikful you had no members by the name of 
Smith. 

(A voice — "We had plenty afterwards.") 

But, after we came along, I was always embarrassed by 
having Walter as a better scholar, better speaker, and a bet- 
ter everything else. He used to pass my examinations for 
me occasionally. Yes, and something I have never told, one 
of the worst marks I ever got in chemistry was an examina- 
tion Walter passed. (Laughter.) 

Now, I want to beg of you, any of you who live in New 
York State, that you will help Wal get his election for an- 
other fourteen years of the judgeship, because he threatens^ 
if he does not get his election, he is going to come to- live 
in New York ; and if he comes to live in New York he will 
have to come to my church ; and every time he does come to 
my church I feel judgment day is come, for he still thinks he 
is training me for the J. O. 

I felt a little disappointed that a member of 'yy was not 
chosen for the Presidency of this great institution. What 
is the matter with 'j'jl 

(A voice— "She is all right.") 

What is the matter with Wick Scott, John Westcott, 
Senator Ormond, and not to speak of the preachers of the 



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Class? I do not mention Jacobus, Fred Campbell, Dave 
Laughlin or Slemmons, because we preachers are not in it 
nowadays so far as the Presidency — or other things — are 
concerned. We used to think we were in it. But one day 
I was preaching on the text, "I thank Thee, O Lord, I am not 
as other men are," and a drunken fellow was in the audience. 
He seemed to listen attentively, and every time I mentioned 
the text there was a mumbling down in the audience, and 
finally, when I mentioned it with a little more emphasis, "I 
thank Thee, O Lord, I am not as other men are,'' he blurted 
out, ''Blasted old Roman Catholic, you ain't any better than 
the rest of us." (Laughter.) 

We ministers now — we know it and feel it — we are not 
even candidates for any honors to-day. But I want to say 
to you — I was going down in the cars yesterday, Saturday, 
with one of the trustees of the Theological Seminary, and he 
said to me: "My candidate for presidency of the Seminary 
is Melancthon W. Jacobus," and if Jake will only take it, 
we will have a 'yy President yet. And with Jake over at 
the Seminary and Woodrow Wilson here, old Princeton will 
have leaders such I believe as she never had before. (Ap- 
plause. ) 

I know perfectly well why Wick Scott, Westcott, and 
those scientific fellows were not made President. I learned it 
the other day, when I heard Charles Buckley Hadley make a 
speech, in which he said college education sometimes un- 
fitted a man, professional scientific education particularly, 
for the practical side of life. He said that when he lived in 
Troy he was a member of the Board of Aldermen, and that 
he had to do with the water supply of that great city, and 
he studied the question very carefully, and he came to the 
conclusion that water, after it had flowed in a running 
stream for a few miles oxidized itself, as he said, and 
became perfectly pure. He was called as an expert to^peak 
before the Common Council of the City of Albany, which 



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takes its water supply just above the city, and about four 
miles below where the sewage of Troy empties into the 
Hudson river. 

Well, he said he spoke before the Common Council, and 
he explained to them how the river oxidized itself and be- 
came perfectly pure after it had flowed four miles, after the 
sewage had entered in from Troy, when an old Irishman, 
an Alderman, got up and said, "Gentlemen, I don't under- 
stand anything about the oxidizing; all I know that when 
the asparagus season begins in Troy, we know it the next 
morning in Albany." 

I suppose Scott, with his magnificent .scientific attainments, 
would not know anything about running a college, or that 
even Ormond, with his magnificent philosophical concepts, 
living in the seventh heaven of philosophy, would not under- 
stand how to get an endowment for the college. And I am 
glad for that reason that those high learneds of 'j"] were 
not chosen for the Presidency. 

Speaking of Osborn's interpretation of our motto, and 
seeing Wick Scott's immaculate dress suit, reminds me of 
another story, the last one I have heard — I hope it is not 
a chestnut — of a Jew that was showing in his store a coat 
to a fellow, and when he went to look a little back in the 
store for another one, the fellow ran out and up the street, 
and the Jew after him, and several policemen joined in the 
chase, and they could not overtake the thief, who had the 
coat on, and who was running too fast and was getting 
away with it, and as the officer pulled out his revolver, the 
Jew said "Officer, officer, shoot him in the pants ; the coat's 
mine." (Laughter.) Perhaps that is the pants that we are 
immortalizing in our motto. 

But, fellows, I am to speaking of the Princeton spirit, 

and just a word, and I have done. I believe that the 

Princeton spirit has been illustrated signally to-day in this 

great University. One of the most beautiful and remark- 

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able instances, I think, in sacred history is that incident when 
Jonathan, who wielded the mightiest sword in Israel, came 
and laid his sword at the feet of David, and said, "Thou 
shalt be a king in Israel, and I will come after thee." And 
when that spirit is illustrated in the high places of this 
University, as it is to-day, all for the good of the college, 
as President Patton seems to think, I believe, it is inter- 
preting the Princeton spirit, which subordinates self to the 
glory and welfare of the University. (Applause.) And it 
is the Princeton spirit that is illustrated again and again in 
our old Class. Do you know one of the orations that lingers 
in my mind, that I have read oftentimes, is that oration in 
our junior year which took the Mclycan prize "To thine own 
self be true." 

(A voice— "Bill Slemmons.") 

Yes; and never a better oration was written or spoken 
upon the junior orator's stage. That is the Princeton spirit 
— to thine own self be true. And when our friend Pyne 
to-day refuses to be chosen as Congressman, with the bait 
of the Senatorship before him, with the possible aspiration 
of the Presidency which might be his, and says he would 
rather work for "Old Nassau" and "whoop her up for 'yy^ 
than be President, I say that is the Princeton spirit. And 
v/hen Billy Dunning, who has longed to see a son and an 
heir in this University, after the seventh daughter has been 
born to him, says he is not discouraged, that again is the 
Princeton spirit. (Laughter and applause.) When Harry 
Osborn gives, not only his money, but his boys tO' this Uni- 
versity, turning his back upon another great college, which 
shall be nameless, which has honored him, as few universi- 
ties have honored man, that, again, is the Princeton spirit. 
And when, fellows, we come together from all classes of 
life — from all stages and phases of success and failure — 
and we join hands around our board here, each one of us 
equal to the other, and recognizing in a common fraternity 



and brotherhood that there are no favors nor class, but each 
one is held in equal esteem and honored by us all, that is 
the Princeton spirit that has made '^jy what it is and is mak- 
ing the University great. (Applause.) 
(Three cheers for Billy Smith.) 

WiivWAM E. Annin — Gentlemen, we omitted, at an early 
stage of the evening, the address by the President, the Sec- 
retary, the Treasurer, and the Executive Committee of the 
Class of 'yj, John Alexander Campbell. Jai Campbell has 
kindly consented, now, to make the address, although at 
this stage of the evening he feels it might be a burden. But 
if you will give him absolute quiet, he will tell you some- 
thing that you would like to know, and that you will re- 
member after you get away from here, which you will not 
do as tO' a few of the speeches that were made here this 
evening. ( Applause. ) 

John A. Campbi^i^i. — Fellows, as I have had very little 
tO' do the last few weeks, and am present at this re-union 
merely as a diversion to kill time, I thought at first that 
I would deliver an eloquent, scholarly oration, but when 
Frank Speir sent me on this program, of which he is the 
author, and I found upon it one toast to "Old Nassau," 
another to " 'y^;' one to "The Past," one to "The Pres- 
ent," one to "The Future," still another to "The Princeton 
Spirit," I came to the conclusion that with Annin as 
toastmaster the only thing left for me to do' was to rise 
and make the new and novel announcement, "My address is 
Trenton, New Jersey," and sit down. But after such an 
enthusiastic greeting from this gathering I cannot but say, 
with apologies to Oliver Wendell Holmes, 

"Oh, what are the prizes we perish to win, 
To the joys of a ^'j'] reunion din?" 

If it be true that "he who has one steadfast friend may 
count himself as blest," what happiness is ours here to- 



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night, after twenty-five years, surrounded as we are with 
hearts loyal and true to dear old Princeton, to the Class of 
'yy and to each other? 

I see before me men who have attended every reunion, 
others who are attending their first gathering of this kind 
since their graduation. Some were with us but a short 
time, while others served the full course, but all of them 
are one with us because all possess and cherish the true im- 
mortal spirit of 'yy. 

I am proud to serve a Class of a hundred and twenty- 
six members, and not a black sheep among them. (Yea, yea, 
yea.) I could almost count you perfect, if it were not for 
the fact that the early education of some of you in the mat- 
er of answering correspondence has been neglected. 
(Laughter.) When I had written fourteen letters to one 
of the fellows, and had not received an answer, I must con- 
fess that I felt a little something like the Irishman who was 
talking to another one of the same nationality, about the 
Boers, and who finally emphasized his remarks by saying, 

"How I love them Boers, 'em" (laughter)' but I never 

said it. I let patience have her perfect work — and wrote 
another letter ; and I want to say here, now, that within the 
last two weeks I received a letter from the one ^yj man 
whose address we have not known in years, in which he said 
that he was hard at work in the lumber region of Pennsyl- 
vania in company with an ex-Princeton pitcher, that he sent 
his love to all his class-mates, and signed his name "Fenian 
O'Neill." 

We cannot all claim to have attained the highest positions 
in life, nor have we had a monopoly of brilliant achieve- 
ments, but I think we can truthfully say that we are all safe 
men, that the members of our class are among the honored, 
the trusted, and the public spirited — the back-bone of any 
community. 



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We started out in 'yy with one hundred and fifty mem- 
bers. Twenty-four of them have passed away, and it is not 
in sorrow that we speak of them to-night, but rather in a 
spirit of thankfulness that they were men of high aspira- 
rations and noble characters. Two of them were present 
here at our last reunion, Billy Campbell and Vail. Billy 
Carnpbell was laid to rest one .snowy February afternoon 
covered with a beautiful robe of flowers, the gift of his 
affectionate class-mates. I was present at Vail's funeral, 
and was glad to know the evident esteem in which he was 
held by his friends and associates. As we love to be remem- 
bered, let us drink a ,silent toast to the memory of those 
good men and true, our friends and class-mates. 

(Silent toast.) 

After twenty-five years of progress, twenty-five per cent., 
or thirty-one, of our number still remain unmarried. May 
the good Lord forgive them! Let them remember that it 
has been proved to be a fact that married men live longer 
than single ones, and this, notwithstanding the remark of 
the old cynic, who said that he did not believe it, that it only 
seemed so to them. (Laughter.) Thirty-eight of our num- 
ber are lawers, of whom three are judges. Judge Smith, 
Judge Walker and the only original Judge Manners. 
Thirty-eight are engaged in various business enterprises, 
sixteen are clergymen, one of whom is a Professor in a 
Theological Seminary, two Missionaries in China; thirteen 
are doctors, and all of them at the head of their profession ; 
seven are professors, four in Princeton, one in Columbia, 
one in Wooster University, and one in Lake Forest, 111.; 
five journalists; five teachers; two are farmers, and one, 
according to his own statement, is a golfite. 

(A voice— "Who is he?") 

James O'Hara Denny. He wrote to me that he did not 
know whether he could come to the Re-union, as he was too 



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busy; and he said afterwards, at the end of his letter, "P. 
S. — My principal occupation is playing golf." 

During the history of the Class we have given directly, in 
round numbers, $50,000 to the University, and we hope to 
do' better in the near future. I do not refer tO' the princely 
gifts given personally by members of our Class directly to^ 
the University. We thank a kind Providence that he has 
given them both the ability and willingness to deal so gen- 
erously by our old Alma Mater ; and we honor them because 
they honor the Class of 'yy. 

We are proud of this record of our Class, and I hope that 
future Re-unions will show even better results than those 
which we are able tO' set forth to-night. 

And now, before we separate, let us answer once more 
the old familiar Class roll. 

(At the calling of the roll sixty-seven members responded, 
as follows) : 



AlLMAN, 


Hartley, 


Richardson, 


Annin, 


Heaeey, 


ROSEBERRY, 


Armour^ 


Hughes, 


ROWEEE, 


Armstrong, W. C, 


Hume, 


SCHANCK, 


Balloch, 


Jacobus, 


Scott, J., 


Biggs, 


Jenkins, 


Scott, W. B., 


Brown, 


Kimbaee, 


Seemmons, 


Brumbach, 


Laughein, D., 


Smith, W. L., 


Burgess, 


Lynde, 


Smith, W. M., 


CampbeIvIv, F., 


Manners, 


Speir, 


CampbjS!.!/^ J. A., 


McCaemont, 


Spethman, 


Chapin, 


McCoy, 


Springs, 


C1.ARK, 


Moore, 


Stevens, 


Denny, 


Mott, 


Thompson, 


Dunning, 


NiCOEE, 


VanDusen, 


Evans, 


NORRIS, 


Waeker, 


FiSK, 


Ormond, 


Westcott, 


FUCKENGER, 


OSBORN, 


WiGTON, 


Funk, 


Parker, 


Williamson, 


Gl<ASS, 


Pitney, 


Wood, 


Green, 


Potter, 


Wool man. 


Haested, 


Pyne, 


Wyckoee. 


Hargis, 







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And now, fellows, in conclusions, I hope we will enjoy 
to the full the recollection of those golden college days when 
lifelong friendships were formed, never to be duplicated in 
after life. 

Francis SpE)ir, Jr. — I propose three cheers for John A. 
Campbell. 

(Three cheers and a tiger for John A. Campbell.) 

John A. Campbe^IvL; — That is the pleasantest sound I ever 
heard. 

W11.1.IAM E. Annin — Now, fellows, just before w^ part 
I want tO' say a word or two-. We have had here with us 
this evening the largest number of members of the Class 
of 'yy who' have ever attended a Re-union. I had hoped, 
before the evening closed, to have been able tO' call upon 
men like Judge Walker, like Frank Hartley, like Harvey 
Edward Fisk, like W. T. Healey, and like a half dozen 
others — Dave Laughlin (hurrah for Dave), but the delights 
of the evening have been so' protracted, and we have soi 
enjoyed it, that a number of the men who' have their families 
with them present in town to-night, or their prospective 
families with them, have insisted that the programme should 
close at as early an hour as possible, which will prevent me 
from making a protracted speech. It is therefore impossible 
to say anything more except that I should like to have been 
able to have had a few one-minute speeches, which would 
probably have been protracted tO' fifteen minutes in each 
case, and would have brought us home very early in the 
morning; and those who have been at the 'yy headquarters 
know that none of us got to sleep there last night until half 
past four, and it is a very unpopular proposition to keep 
people up so late in the morning. I feel this, however, that 
as far as this evening has gone, we will look back upon it 
very much as did the fellow who was picked up in the street. 
Some good Samaritans shook him up and tried to find out 



72 

where he was living. He said, "I don't feel exactly — " 
*' Where do' you live ?" "I don't know where I live." "Well, 
don't you know where you live?" "No, I don't know where 
I live." They said, "Now, you must know where you live," 
and he said, "I don't mind a little detail like that; leave me 
alone." "Where have you been?" "I don't know where 
I have been." "Have you been at a wedding, or at a 
funeral?" "I don't know; but whichever it was it was a 
success." ( Laughter. ) 

So' I hope to-night that, whether we have been at a wed- 
ding or a funeral, we will all feel this dinner has been a suc- 
cess, and that it will remain a pleasant memory in the hearts 
of all the dear good old fellows of ^yy, who never meet each 
other without being fonder of each other than when they 
met each other last ; and that after meeting here they will all 
come tO' the next Re-union without having fourteen letters 
written to them by our Secretary. 

At the conclusion of the dinner the fellows re-assembled 
in the dining-room of the Re-union Headquarters, and, with 
Annin in the chair, proceeded tO' have what he termed a 
"heart tO' heart talk." Every one was called tO' his feet and 
spoke a few words expressive of his feeling on meeting once 
again with his classmates in dear old Princeton. The intro- 
ductions were made as only Annin could make them, and, 
as he referred in turn tO' each one of his classmates present, 
the appropriateness of his sallies was thoroughly enjoyed. 
None of the absent fellows were forgotten. Every member 
of the Class was affectionately remembered, and the Secre- 
tary was kept busy answering questions regarding them. 

This informal meeting was one of the events of the Re- 
union. All were loth tO' leave, but when daylight began to 
stream intO' the windows, Annin, in a most appropriate and 
affectionate farewell, brought the Re-union to a close. 
Billy Williamson, ready to retire, found someone occupying 



73 

his cot, whereupon his desire to take another look at Prir^e- 
ton was too strong to be resisted, and he returned from his 
walk only in time for breakfast. 



TUESDAY. 

On Tuesday, at 12:30, we joined the procession and 
marched tO' University Hall, where the Alumni dinner was 
served. It was a memorable occasion, as President Wilson, 
'79, appeared before the Alumni for the first time as head 
of the University and made a brief speech amid great en- 
thusiasm. 

In the call of Classes, when '"jy was reached, Pyne most 
worthily represented our Class, and spoke as follows : 

"As I look back over the twenty-nine years which have 
passed since the Class of '"j^j first made its appearance on the 
campus, and think of the marvellous growth of the Univer- 
sity during that period, I feel a deep sense of pride and 
honor in being a member of a class which has had the op- 
portunity of doing so much for old Princeton. 

Seventy-seven has been a remarkable Class in many ways. 
We showed this when, within eight years of our graduation, 
we had six men holding professors' chairs here and two 
Trustees, neither of whom are Presbyterians. You have 
heard told again and again at these dinners by better men, 
that the University is indebted to our Class for the "Athletic 
Field," the 'Varsity Club House, the '"jy Biological Labora- 
tory, for two Dormitories, for the University Library, for the 
first Seminary which was established here in Philosophy, for 
its magnificent Classical Seminary, for at least one other 
seminary, for its Biological Department, which was organ- 
ized with Professors Osborn, Scott and Libbey, all of ^yy, as 
its first teachers; for the Daily Princetonian, out of which 
^rew the Alumni Weekly, for the twin colors of Orange 



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and Black, for the beautiful arms of the University, which 
now float over Blair Hall and are seen in every Princeton 
man's home, and for many other things which I cannot repeat 
here. But, above all this, I feel proud when I remember 
that the "Spirit of '77" remained a tradition on the campus 
long after we had gone — a tradition handed down from 
class tO' class, until this spirit increased and spread to. such 
a degree that it permeated the whole community and became 
known as "The Princeton Spirit," and to-day that spirit is 
the envy and admiration of other Universities, the goal of 
their ambitions and the ideal which they strive to attain. 

That deep love and affection for Alma Mater, that con- 
stant devotion to her interests, that unity of feelings which 
makes Princeton men stand shoulder to shoulder in the 
world, which supports a team equally in victory or defeat, 
SO' that a Princeton team is never beaten until time is called 
and plays its best game in the ninth inning — ^that spirit we 
owe in no small measure to the Class of 'yy. 

Other institutions are backed by the unlimited resources 
of a great city, a State, or of a single individual. Prince- 
ton has none of these aids. She relies on the love and devo- 
tion of her Alumni, and nobly have they responded to her 
call, working for her interests all over the land, returning in 
constantly increasing numbers to her celebrations and 
bringing greater and greater gifts to her shrine. During 
the past five or six years she has received over a million 
and a half dollars through her sons, and I believe that this 
is only the beginning. Better, far better, I believe, is this 
tribute of honor and affection laid at the feet of Alma Mater 
by her loving sons, than the share in the tax levy of a State, 
or the benefaction of a man whose only reason for giving 
is that the college bears his name, or supports his peculiar 
creed. 

Now, the Class of '"jy was not a large class as classes now 
go. We graduated 112 men, of whom 24 have already 



75 

crossed the river, and yet to-day we have here in Prince- 
ton seventy of our Class, strong in love for each other 
and for Alma Mater, more than ever united in brotherl}^ af- 
fection and ready to stand together until the end. Four- 
teen years ago we presented to you the '"jy Memorial 
Building, which has done such splendid service to Prince- 
ton and Biological Science, and we have ever since main- 
tained the Biological Fellowship which has turned out a 
yearly succession of high-grade investigators who now hold 
honored positions in many of the universities of our land. 

And now, on our Twenty-fifth Anniversary, I am author- 
ized to say that the Class will give to Princeton the sum of 
$25,000, being $1,000 dollars for each year since gradua- 
tion, which will pay off the mortgage on the Varsity Ath- 
letic Field and will increase tO' that amount the endowment 
of the Biological Department. 

Other classes have nobly followed our example, notably 
the Class of '79, and should that Class, or any other Class, 
or every other Class, surpass our record in gifts, in devo- 
tion, in work for Princeton, or in the Princeton spirit, none 
will rejoice more than every single member of the Class 
of >7-" 

CONCLUSION. 

Many of the fellows left on Tuesday, while some re- 
mained tO' witness Commencement Exercises on Wednes- 
day. The Headquarters were closed on Friday, the decora- 
tions removed, and the Quarter Century Re-union became a 
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CLASS ROLL. 



J. T. AiLMAN_, Thompsontown, Pa. 

George A. Armour^ Princeton, N. J. 

W. C. Armstrong, 184 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, N. J. 

E. A. Bai,i,och, M.D., 1013 Fifteenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Rev George G. Barnes, Meshoppen, Pa. 

A. C. BartIvES, 43 Cedar St., New York City. 

N. Benedict, 23 S. McLean Ave,, Memphis, Tenn. 

John L. Best, 29 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Mass. 

Hon. John Biggs, 913 Market St., Wilmington, Del. 

James W. Bowers, Jr., 16 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. 

F. E. Brooks, 6649 S. Halsted St., Chicago, 111. 

Hon. O. S. Brumback, 314 Gardner Building, Toledo, Ohio. 

W. B. Bryan, 1330 Eighteenth St., Washington, D. C. 

WiLEiAM Burgess, P. O. Box 563, Trenton, N. J. 

C. M. BuSHNEEL, 645 Ferry St., W., Buffalo, N. Y. 

WiEEiAM M. BuTEER, 2636 Osage St., St. Louis, Mo. 

Frank G. Campbeee, Cherry Valley, N. Y. 

Rev. Frederic Campbeee, 35 Second Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

John A. Campbeee, 379 West State St., Trenton, N. J. 

H. D. Chapin, M.D., 51 West 51st St., New York City. 

Chas. S. Ceark, 206 Broadway, New York City. 

W. T. Dawson, M.D., 850 West End Ave., New York City. 

J. O'H. Denny, Ligonier, Pa. 

John S. Eey, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Chas. E. Evans, East Main St., Stockbridge, Mass. 

Harvey Edward Fisk, 35 Cedar St., New York City. 

J. R. Flickenger, State Normal School, Lock Haven, Pa. 

Hon. J. H. Ford, Union League Club, New York. 

Geo. W. Forsyth, 6 West 51st St., New York City. 

D. S. Funk, M.D., 300 N. Second Ave., Harrisburg, Pa. 

F. P. Geass, 1030 So. Hull, Montgomery, Ala. 

George H. Gowdy, Campbellsville, Ky. 

Calvin G. Greene, 614 First Ave., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

M. T. Hargis, Snow Hill, Md. 

Frank Hartley, M.D., 61 West 49th St., New York City. 

Hon. Walter Hazard, 1004 Highmarket St., Georgetown, S. C. 

{77) 



78 

W. T. HeaIvKy, 28 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. 

Morris Hoats, 29 South Seventh St., Allentown, Pa. 

F. W. Hughes, M.D., New Berne, N. C. 

R^v. J. C. Hume, 83 Powers St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Henry C. Hunt, Sussex (Deckertown), N. J. 

Rev. M. W. Jacobus, D.D., 14 Marshall St., Hartford, Conn. 

Rev. D. D. Jenkins, 301 N. Washington St., Wilkesbarre, Pa. 

Baker Johnson, 378 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, 111. 

E. R. Johnston, Cumberland, Md. 

S. B. Johnston, P. O. Box 107, Columbus, Miss. 

W. W. Johnston, 38 St. James Park, Los Angeles, Cal. 

R. B. Kimbale, M.D., 15 East 41st St., New York City. 

Rev. David Laughein, 641 W. Lafayette St., Baltimore, Md. 

Rev. J. H. Laughein, 3817 West St., Oakland, Cal. 

Frank S. Layng, Holland House, New York City. 

F. A. Leavenworth, 186 Lake Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 

J. M. LiBBEY, Union League Club, New York. 

Proe. Wieeiam Libbey, Thanet Lodge, Princeton, N. J. 

R. H. Lynde, 82 Beaver St., New York City. 

Edwin Manners, 287 Barrow St., Jersey City, N. J. 

Proe. H. N. Mateer, M.D., 60 E. Bowman St., Wooster, Ohio 

Rev. Robert M. Mateer, Wei Hein via Chef 00, China. 

E. S. McCaemont, 416 Fifth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Wieeiam F. McCorkee, 38 Alfred St., Detroit, Mich. 

A. J. McCosh, M.D., 16 East 54th St., New York City. 

Thos. H. McKoy, 31 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. 

Rev. D. B. McMurdy, Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y. 

Proe. Maecoem McNeiee, Lake Forest, 111. 

Crittenden McKineEy, 316 Union Trust Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. 

Chas. L. Mead, 24 Mulberry St., Middletown, N. Y. 

W. E. MiEEARD, 99 Nassau St., New York City. 

John H. Moore, M.D., 55 W. Commerce St., Bridgeton, N. J. 

L. S. MoTT, 42 James St., Newark, N. J. 

Benjamin Nicole, 59 Wall St, New York City. 

Wieeiam M. Norris, 69 Alexander St., Princeton, N. J. 

James D. O'Neiee, Hambleton, W. Va. 

Proe. A. T. Ormond, 276 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J. 

Proe. H. F. Osborn, 850 Madison Ave., New York City. 

M. M. Padgett, Jr., Trenton, S. C. 

Henry C. Pitney, Jr., Morristown, N. J. 

Jotham Potter, 600 Huron Road, S. E., Cleveland, Ohio. 

Rev. Hugh Pritchard, 117 Waverly Place, New York City. 

M. Tayeor Pyne, Princeton, N. J. 

Charees Remsen, M.D., 800 Madison Ave., New York City. 

Hon. John E. Richardson, 102 Oak St., Murf reesboro, Tenn. 



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Hon. Adrian Rike)r, 169 Clinton Ave., Newark, N. J. 

John Roberts, Box 284, Columbus, Wis. 

WiiviviAM ll. R01.AND, 200 S. Duke St., Lancaster, Pa. 

J. M. RosEBERRY, Belvidere, N. J. 

A. E. RowELL, West End, Fairfax Co., Va. 

Rev. S. J. RowEAND, Clinton, N. J. 

W. P. Samuel, 222 City Hall, St. Louis, Mo. 

A. R. ScHANCK, 18 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J. 

W. F. ScHROEDER, 225 Vesper St., Lock Haven, Pa. 

John Scott, Jr., 1012 Stephen Girard Bldg., Phila. 

Proe. W. B. Scott, 56 Bayard Lane, Princeton, N. J. 

Rev. W. B. Skieeman, 1808 Christian St., Phila., Pa. 

Rev. W. E. SeEmmons, Washington, Pa. 

Samuee W. Smallwood, M.D., New Berne, N. C. 

Hon. Waeter Lloyd Smith, 222 W. Church St., Elmira, N. Y. 

Rev. W. Merle Smith, 29 West 54th St., New York City 

Francis Speir, Jr., 52 Wall St., New York City. 

Carl L. SpEThman, 20 Lawn Ridge Road, Orange, N. J. 

R. A. Springs, Cotton Exchange Bldg., New York City. 

C. E. Stevens, The Elmwood, Readfield, Me. 

Rev. Samuel Taylor, Fairfield, Wayne Co., III. 

Henry B. Thompson, Brookwood Farm, Greenville, Del. 

George R. VanDusen, 1012 Stephen Girard Bldg., Phila. 

Judge R. W. Walker, Huntsville, Ala. 

Proe. J. H. Westcott, 200 Mercer St., Princeton, N. J. 

F. H. WiGTON, S. E. Cor. Broad and Chestnut Sts., Phila. 

G. L. Wiley, 495 Central Aye., East Orange, N. J. 

James F. Williamson, 925 Guaranty Loan Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. 

L. D. WiSHARD, Metropolitan Bldg., Madison Square, New York. 

Hon. Ira W. Wood, 138 E. State St., Trenton, N. J. 

Jacob R. Wyckoff, Princeton Junction, N. J. 



